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A while back I wrote an article Switching from Apache HTTP Server to Lighttpd – Installing Lighttpd. Back then I migrated static stuff to lighttpd but left the dynamic stuff (PHP) with Apache. I was never really satisfied with the speed of our system under load. I tried and tried. I optimized a lot of [...]

For our main web project we struggle to serve the pages as fast as we want and as people aspect. Server load is too high most of the time. We did many different kinds of optimization. Starting with rewriting part of the code, squeezing the database, compiling the software we need instead of installing precompiled [...]