lighttpd
FeaturesAdvanced Features:
* virtual hosts
* virtual directory listings
* URL-Rewriting, HTTP-Redirects
* automatic expiration of files
* Large File Support (64bit fileoffsets)
* Ranges (start-end, start-, -end, multiple ranges)
* on-the-fly output-compression with transparent caching
o deflate, gzip, bzip2
* authentification
o basic, digest
o backends: plain files, htpasswd, htdigest, ldap
* fast and secure application controlled downloads
* Server Side Includes
* User Tracking
PHP-Support:
* same speed as or faster than apache + mod_php4
* includes a utility to spawn FastCGI processes (neccesary for PHP 4.3.x)
* via FastCGI and CGI interface
* support Code Caches like Turckmm, APC or eaccelarator
* load-balanced FastCGI
(one webserver distibutes request to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI)
Security features:
* protecting docroot
* strict HTTP-header parsing
動作の軽いHTTPサーバ。
必要十分な機能は備えているので、負荷の高いサーバではApacheの代替にいいかもしれないですね。