YouTube and many other major properties adopted Lighttpd around 2005-2008. It was the first high performance lightweight server , with documentation in English. It also had a lot of memory leaks and other bugs. But it had high performance and you could just have a cron-job kill&respawn it hourly.
Nginx, at that time, was just as robust and had no major issues -- except the docs were entirely in Russian and the mailing list / community was mostly in broken English. Over time, the Nginx community came up with English docs & a great wiki. Many of the Lighttpd users were frustrated and dropped lighttpd for nginx or Apache2. Quoting nginx.com ( http://www.nginx.com/company.html ) """ It is used by 10.15% of all web sites and over 25% of the top 1,000 busiest web sites on the Internet, including Facebook, Zappos, Groupon, LivingSocial, Hulu, TechCrunch, Dropbox and WordPress.""" lighttpd isn't even on those charts. No one publicly knows what YouTube is using for videos today. Their main site is in Apache, and their videos have a cryptic "gvs 1.0" header, which could stand for "google video server" or the name of the CDN application. Whatever the cause, I strongly doubt that Lighttpd is still in use. The site has been barely updated over the past 5 years ( the benchmarks are even 5years old) Also worth nothing that the front page of lighttpd.net claims YouTube , WikiPedia and Meebo -- however meebo shows nginx, WikiPedia shows apache on html and "Sun-Java-System-Web-Server/7.0" on assets. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
