Lighttpd

How R2G Tools, a dropped-domain search engine, was built with MongoDB, MySQL, CodeIgniter, Lighttpd, Varnish, and memcached running on three commodity servers.

A set of free, downloadable funny and slick HTTP 5xx error pages for Apache, Lighttpd, or Varnish — because server errors don't have to be boring.

Configure a two-node web cluster with SSH VPN tunnels, rsync replication, session_mysql for PHP sessions, and two-way MySQL asynchronous replication.

Build a load balanced, high availability, shared-nothing web cluster for under $60/month using two Linode VPSes with rsync, MySQL replication, and SSH tunnels.

Complete step-by-step guide to install WSO2 WSF/PHP on Lighttpd with PHP5 FastCGI on Debian, including consuming a real SOAP web service to verify the setup works.

Switching from Apache to Lighttpd with FastCGI delivered a 204% performance gain — serving 700 req/s on a Debian Xen VPS with just 128 MB RAM.