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lighttpd vs Microsoft IIS: What are the differences?
lighttpd: A secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web-server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. lighttpd has a very low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software for every server that suffers load problems; Microsoft IIS: A web server for Microsoft Windows. Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS's scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.
lighttpd and Microsoft IIS can be categorized as "Web Servers" tools.
"Lightweight" is the primary reason why developers consider lighttpd over the competitors, whereas "Great with .net" was stated as the key factor in picking Microsoft IIS.
Intuit, Accolade, and CampusBookRentals are some of the popular companies that use Microsoft IIS, whereas lighttpd is used by WhatsApp, Frame, and Fusionbox. Microsoft IIS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1498 company stacks & 312 developers stacks; compared to lighttpd, which is listed in 15 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
I am diving into web development, both front and back end. I feel comfortable with administration, scripting and moderate coding in bash, Python and C++, but I am also a Windows fan (i love inner conflict). What are the votes on web servers? IIS is expensive and restrictive (has Windows adoption of open source changed this?) Apache has the history but seems to be at the root of most of my Infosec issues, and I know nothing about nginx (is it too new to rely on?). And no, I don't know what I want to do on the web explicitly, but hosting and data storage (both cloud and tape) are possibilities. Ready, aim fire!
I would pick nginx over both IIS and Apace HTTP Server any day. Combine it with docker, and as you grow maybe even traefik, and you'll have a really flexible solution for serving http content where you can take sites and projects up and down without effort, easily move it between systems and dont have to handle any dependencies on your actual local machine.
Pros of lighttpd
- Lightweight7
- Easy setup6
- Virtal hosting2
- Simplicity2
- Full featured2
- Proxy2
- Open source2
- Available modules1
- Fast1
- Security1
- Ssl support1
Pros of Microsoft IIS
- Great with .net83
- I'm forced to use iis55
- Use nginx27
- Azure integration18
- Best for ms technologyes ms bullshit15
- Fast10
- Reliable6
- Performance6
- Powerful4
- Simple to configure3
- Webserver3
- Easy setup2
- Shipped with Windows Server1
- Ssl integration1
- Security1
- Охуенный1
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Cons of lighttpd
Cons of Microsoft IIS
- Hard to set up1
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