Compare to Windows IIS server, I choose my hosting server to be a linux platform running with Apache + PHP. Talk about Apache, it has always my favorite webserver, ever since I set up my server in university.

But recently I notice of another webserver called lighttpd. Youtube, wikipedia, meebo and some of the web2.0 sites are running on lighttpd!

So, maybe now you will pay more attention to this light weight and fast performance web server. Just today, Lighttpd has released 1.4.18 to solve some of the security issues.

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Lighttpd 1.4.18

On Windows, there are plenty download manager to download and resume. But on Linux, I could not find any yet until today. I used aria2 to resume and segmented the download. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and BitTorrent.

I am using Ubuntu, so just type in the following command into the terminal.

sudo apt-get install aria2

But something I still not very satisfy is it does not have any GTK+ interface! The only thing maybe I can please of it is the low processor consumption. It runs on single thread model. The memory usage is just like 3MB for HTTP download and 5MB for BitTorrent.

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aria2 - The high speed download utility