I killed Apache

I hereby swear to never consider Apache as a first-hand choice for installing any high-performance website again. It's simply not up for the task anymore.

I'm not going to back the previous statement up with a bunch of numbers and fancy graphs, you'll just have to take my word for it or come to this conclusion yourself after considering the options.

There was a time when Apache was one of the Greatest, and has contributed a great deal to the rapid growth of the Internet, but these days others have started over, considered every flaw and optimized for the latest kernels/IO-systems and hardware, and come up with software that does it's job in extremely efficient ways. mApache may have more features, but most of the time all you need is a fast static webserver with FastCGI-support anyway, right?

So, what's my choice? At the moment, LighTTPd outperforms anything I've ever tried, I'm yet to se it crash, and haven't missed one feature so far. Try it, be amazed and change your mind (if it's not changed already).