Which Apache2 server should I use?

Damien Hull dhull at section9.us
Sun Jun 6 16:32:59 UTC 2010


Thanks for the info. However, I need php so I'm sticking with apache.  
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On Jun 6, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Johnneylee Rollins <johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com 
 > wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Damien Hull <dhull at section9.us> wrote:
>> I'm setting up a few test web servers running Ubuntu 10.04. I  
>> installed a LAMP stack with "aptitude install apache2 mysql-server  
>> php5 php5-mysql". It looks like I got apache2-mpm-prefork. Is this  
>> the version of Apache I want?
>>
>> I also need to performance tune it for 256mb of RAM. That's all I  
>> have unless I migrate to a larger server. Any tips in this area  
>> would be a big help.
>>
>> For those that don't know there are two kinds of Apache2.
>> apache2-mpm-worker
>> apache2-mpm-prefork
>>
> I would personally use lighttpd or codename lighty. It's fast and
> small, light footprint and can do some php if needed. It's not a
> workhorse like Apache, but it's brilliant for smaller servers.
> http://www.lighttpd.net/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lighttpd%2BPHP
>
> Good luck!
>
> ~SpaceGhost
>
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