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When comparing Cherokee vs Lighttpd, the Slant community recommends Lighttpd for most people. In the question“What are the best web servers?” Lighttpd is ranked 3rd while Cherokee is ranked 12th.
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Pros
Pro User friendly
Pro Administration GUI
Pro Simple setup for static content
Pro Fast and built for scalability
Lighttpd is event-driven, asynchronous, non-blocking and single threaded. This allows lighttpd to be manage resources more efficiently compared to thread-based models (like Apache).
Pro Highly efficient memory use
With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load.
Pro Free and open source
Pro Lightweight
Lighttpd offers a more basic set of functions out of the box compared most web servers. Extra functionality can be added via modules.
Pro Quite easy to setup and configure
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