Running a web server on 256 RAM

[Suvayu Ali]

homburg at tips-Q.com wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:08:15 -0700
> Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
> 
>> Quoting homburg at tips-Q.com:
>>
>>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:46:55 +0200
>>> James Matthews <nytrokiss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good, I am now trying that out!
>>>>
>>> Late to this thread. If "that" was not lighttpd, I
>>> highly recommend it and use it on our site. I uses
>>> considerably less resources than Apache and is
>>> significantly faster. BTW, YouTube and wikipedia also
>>> use lighttpd.
>> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=www.wikipedia.org
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighttpd
> "
> Lighttpd is used by some of the biggest websites, including
> sites such as YouTube, Wikipedia and meebo. Wikimedia uses
> Lighttpd for some of its services[4][5][6][7] as does
> SourceForge.[7][8] Three of the most famous torrent listing
> websites, The Pirate Bay, Mininova and isoHunt, which have
> more than 1,000 hits per second, also use Lighttpd.[9]
> Lighttpd currently holds fifth place on the Netcraft "Web
> Server Survey" (November 2008).[10]"
> 

Looks like that page is outdated, or hasn't caught the attention of the 
editors recently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Software_and_hardware

"Wikipedia currently runs on dedicated clusters of Linux servers (mainly 
Ubuntu[96][97]), with a few OpenSolaris machines for ZFS. As of February 
2008, there were 300 in Florida, 26 in Amsterdam, and 23 in Yahoo!'s 
Korean hosting facility in Seoul.[98] Wikipedia employed a single server 
until 2004, when the server setup was expanded into a distributed 
multitier architecture. In January 2005, the project ran on 39 dedicated 
servers located in Florida. This configuration included a single master 
database server running MySQL, multiple slave database servers, 21 web 
servers running the Apache HTTP Server, and seven Squid cache servers."

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Suvayu

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