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.

• fixed compile error on IRIX 6.5.x on prctl() (#1333)
• fixed forwarding a SIGINT and SIGHUP when using max-workers (#902)
• fixed FastCGI header overrun in mod_fastcgi (reported by mattias@secweb.se)
• fixed hanging redirects with keep-alive due to missing “Content-Length: 0″ headers
• fixed crashing when using undefined environment variables in the config
• fixed compilation of mod_mysql_vhost on irix (#1341)

One more thing, Lighttpd only runs on linux. That is why I could not use it when I only run Windows.

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