Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX

Dan dan-freebsd-questions at ourbrains.org
Mon Nov 3 13:11:32 PST 2008


Matthew Seaman(m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk)@2008.11.03 19:59:56 +0000:
> Francis Dub? wrote:
> 
> >Which one do you suggest and why ?

nginx. Lighttpd has remote security holes once in a while. nginx has
better security design and is more modular and faster. It happens to
also be feature-rich, which is not easy to do in a fast and secure
server. Lighttpd had one recent remote hole as of .18. IIRC nginx had
none.


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