Some alternate web servers for you to consider. I'm not sure what they have to offer over Apache. I think most of them promise a lighter, faster, easier to use web server, as Apache can certainly be a beast in oh so many ways! I should probably run one of these on my local machine, as I don't really need all the power and sophistication of Apache for my quicky testing here. These all, of course, have ports and most of them even have PBIs.
Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding, Apache compatible log files, and much more.The latest news was in October 2006, but the latest release is 0.5.6, done on 15 Dec 2006, so it is an active project. A basic web server.
Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility--all of these describe LightTPD which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) LightTPD is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems.Maybe one of the most popular alternate web server. Lots of features and great performance.
Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, MacOS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems.From Aprelium Technologies, this seems to be a feature rich server.
Despite its small footprint, it supports HTTP/1.1, dynamic content generation through CGI/FastCGI scripts, ISAPI extensions, native ASP.NET support, Server Side Includes (SSI), custom error pages, password protection, IP address control, anti-leeching, and bandwidth throttling.
I downloaded the Lighttpd PBI, but haven't tried it yet. I've a million other things to try first!
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