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What is Lighttpd?

Lighttpd is an open-source web server optimized for speed-critical environments while remaining standards-compliant, secure and flexible.

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Lighttpd is an open-source web server optimized for speed-critical environments while remaining standards-compliant, secure and flexible.


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Lighttpd
Year Founded
2016
HQ Location
Edinburgh
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Recent Lighttpd Reviews

Kiran R.
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Kiran R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Use Lighttpd when you lacking speed"
Lighttpd put low load on your CPU and provide you optimized speed for hosting your website. Basically its a web Server that is open source and can...
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5.0 out of 5
"Lighttpd Experience"
lighttpd supports the FastCGI, SCGI and CGI interfaces to external programs, allowing web applications written in any programming language to be us...
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Rebecca B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Lighttpd alternative to apache webserver"
Lighttpd is a great webserver to host applications online. I like how it's reliable to use and has many years of usage experience.
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What do you like best about Lighttpd?

It provides the best Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility.

I can have all of that for free by using this product. Also it uses less resources than others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lighttpd?

It has small community and some compatibility issues with the configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It is free & open source software! The best tool you can have! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lighttpd solving and how is that benefiting you?

All of my resource related problems are finally solved!

It changed my server performance to High! Every customer was reporting slow performance before i use this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lighttpd?

Probably my favorite aspect of lighttpd is it's reliability. Granted I don't use it at an enterprise level necessarily, but I've never had a single issue with it. It simply does what it's supposed to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lighttpd?

There's nothing to dislike. It's free/open-source and comes packaged with a lot of other open source stuff on the web. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lighttpd:

Lighttpd is fast and lightweight. It does what is expected (serves files/works with various languages) and I've never encountered any issues in using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lighttpd solving and how is that benefiting you?

For one lighttpd is known for being lightweight and speedy. It's certainly sped up our processes where it's used and is extremely stable. It handles everything I've thrown at it without a hitch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lighttpd?

LightHTTPD has come a long way and definitely lives up to its name. By far one of the best web servers out there!

1) Fast and easy to setup and deploy

2) Unmatched stability and speed

3) Easy to administer

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What do you dislike about Lighttpd?

There isn't anything that I dislike about this program I can't speak enough about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lighttpd solving and how is that benefiting you?

When I worked for a web hosting company we use this program because of the extreme ease of setup and we needed a web server that would handle a high load of requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kiran R.
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What do you like best about Lighttpd?

Lighttpd put low load on your CPU and provide you optimized speed for hosting your website.

Basically its a web Server that is open source and can run over Linux and windows.

Moreover applications built with any programming language can be supported.

Main thing is that it balance your system load. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lighttpd?

It doesn't support IIS api that is ISAPI.

In simple words it doesn't support multitier architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lighttpd solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have used it beacuse its flexible and strong plus provides good handling in high performance systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lighttpd?

Lighttpd is a great webserver to host applications online. I like how it's reliable to use and has many years of usage experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lighttpd?

Lighttpd is an open sourced web server so it's not that easy to use if your technical skills aren't the best Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lighttpd solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lighttpd allows our team to scale web applications with ease and it is a cost effective solution TCO wise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Palak G.
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What do you like best about Lighttpd?

First of all lighttpd is an open source and free tool. It offers better set of functions compared to other servers.

It is single threaded and non blocking tool which makes us manage our resources more efficiently. It is easy to use and more simple to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lighttpd?

Lighttpd sometimes didn't perform well and it lacks in supporting WSGI.

It is not compatible with some Apache configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lighttpd solving and how is that benefiting you?

All my web server related problems came to an end with Lighttpd as I need not to worry about my memory consumption as it can be used with low main memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Leo J.
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What do you like best about Lighttpd?

This rocks small footprint and fast. Works out of the box and just a breeze to use. Embeddable and very useful above what I thought it would do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lighttpd?

Download of it... busy servers tell how popular it is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lighttpd solving and how is that benefiting you?

Kiosks server and inhouse app server for floating apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lighttpd?

Lighttpd is non-concurrent server, has no memory related issue, and gives you secure,fast and a very flexible web services! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lighttpd?

There is no inbuilt support for WSGI and it can be very slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lighttpd:

I recommend that you improve compatibility issues. If you want a quick and reliable server you should absolutely use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lighttpd solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lighttpd helps me with many of my web server related problems and I no longer have to worry about my memory consumption because it can be used with low main memory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sukhpreet S.
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What do you like best about Lighttpd?

Lighttpd as it pronounced Lighty is really fast, convenient, secure and reliable server. It has a very less CPU load usage. I have been using this server in my corporate and it always has 100 % uptime. Moreover it is free and open source. I have used Java with other web applications to connect with this server and it support web applications written in any programming language.

If you want to have light and fast server then you can surely opt for this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lighttpd?

Other Servers Like NGINX, APACHE provide better support rather than Lighttpd.

Moreover for large CGI files this server don't work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lighttpd solving and how is that benefiting you?

Have been using this for corporate work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Lighttpd?

Lighttpd provides more performance in the same CPU, RAM.

We can use to get high performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Lighttpd?

In Lighttpd No SPDY.

Also, there is no HTTP/2 support in lighttpd. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Lighttpd:

Yes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Lighttpd solving and how is that benefiting you?

We able to get high performance in the same server that we use other server software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.