On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Calomel <anthremophic@calomel.org> wrote:
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> Nuno,
>
> I would highly suggest looking into Nginx. It is easy to build from
> source and runs efficiently, using little memory or CPU time. Even
> though it is a light web server compared to Apache, Nginx is able to
> handle high traffic loads. The WordPress blogging system recently
> converted all of its load balancers to Nginx, using the upstream hash
> module to serve 8-9 thousand requests per second.
>
> Unlike lighttpd, the author is actively developing Nginx and the
> community is constantly building add on modules. Finally, you can
> easily secure Nginx to better protect your machine from abusive
> clients.
>

current problem for nginx is, it doesn't handle php-fastcgi process
spawning. AFAIK it can be solved with either patching php manually
with php-fpm ( http://php-fpm.anight.org/ ) or using lighttpd's
spawn-fcgi.
IMO, in general, configuring lighttpd+php is easier than nginx+php.

YMMV

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>  Nginx web server "how to"
>  https://calomel.org/nginx.html
>
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>  Calomel @ https://calomel.org
>  Open Source Research and Reference
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 03:14:40PM +0100, Nuno Magalh??es wrote:
>>I have an old Compaq Armada 1500c with 32MB of RAM i want to use as a
>>webserver. Having it support PHP and mySQL would be fun since i intend
>>to use both. The same machine has sshd running and might also become a
>>print-server for a parallel Epson Stylus Color 740 if i can decide on
>>the print server (apparently either cups or lpd, whichever's lighter).
>>
>>I haven't fiddled with it a whole lot, it's mostly just on and showing
>>top through ssh. Right now its memory line is this:
>>Memory: Real: 7200K/20M act/tot  Free: 3944K  Swap: 0K/66M used/tot
>>with its most cpu-intensive process being sendmail. I have no
>>mailserver, what's that for?
>>
>>So, big servers like Apache are kind of out of the question. From the
>>package list i found Bozotic, lighttpd, nginx,  p5-HTTP-Server-Simple
>>and thttpd. Of those, nginx caught my eye and while searching i came
>>across cherokee-project.com,  Hiawatha (hiawatha.leisink.org) and also
>>shttpd.sourceforge.net
>>
>>Is anyone using any of these or a lightweight httpd in general? I
>>don't mean small as in d116.com/ace/ nor are my resources as low as
>>d116.com/spud/ but useful input would be welcome. Ya know, the
>>constructive criticism type.
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>--
>>Nuno MagalhC#es