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. Nginx web server "how to" https://calomel.org/nginx.html -- 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
