Devide Static and Dynamic Content

[ephigenie]

yes the idea is nice & copied a bit from the apache 2.2 concept of doing proxying

one core "router" and surrounded by plugins which control routing and plugins supporting different protocols

Hm but i'm still not sure that lighttpd is that much faster on static files than apache - event (that one can even be linked against libaio and so on ) so it's able, too to do non-blocking io and all those nice things. ( you know even apache2.2 can max out a 100mbit line with a 500Mhz cpu - the difference is only visible, when you're going to let your 1000mbit line burn (you run a torrent tracker ? )

The real difference is the fastcgi implementation. That's really damn fast.
And the low memory footprint of course. So in the end its less ressource intensiv as apache is. But regarding only the speed of static files I'm not quite sure if you'll get a big difference there. (But a total changed setup does for sure! )