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How To Run Lighttpd with WordPress!
In this blog post, I will show you how to convert a WordPress blog to run Lighttpd instead of the default Apache Httpd server (on a Plesk server specifically). You can probably apply most of these instructions to any other web servers running on raw Apache but if you are that good at managing web servers, I will leave the extra hacking to you. As for Plesk, I just find it easier to setup everything like e-mail, DNS, and whatnot but you don’t need to use Plesk at all if you can do it all using command-line.
In my recent conversions, my web servers are now able to handle
WordPress Lighttpd vs. Apache Httpd Perfomance Test
This is a WordPress permance test using Lighttpd (which is a faster alternative to Apache) and Apache Httpd on a test server loaded with a real blog. All tests were done from empty load of zero.
For testing, I’ve used a virtual dedicated server from MediaTemple, specifically their dv Extreme server which touts 2GB of ram and virtual quad-core CPU performance.
I did an initial test with Lighttpd and found that Lighttpd outperforms Apache H