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= Powered By lighttpd =
Here are some sites that are using lighttpd to serve millions of pages every day. If you run such a site, feel free to add it. Include traffic and hardware details if you so desire.
Please follow a few rules when you add your site:
* you have to control the site or have to have the permission of the owner to name it here
* include the req/s or req/day your get and put yourself into the corresponding category
* add yourself in a alphabetic order based on the TLD
== more than 10mio req/day (or 100 req/s) ==
* http://www.chefkoch.de - Largest cooking page in german language. 500-1000 req/s, 2 million users, 25 million PI per month. Lighttpd on Debian.
* http://www.draugiem.lv - a social networking site with ~30K users online
* http://www.emedian.de - Emedian Network - Central European Hosting/Community-Company, Using Lighty now on approx. half of the Servers
* http://inbox.lv/ - serving 350,000 active e-mail users, as well as a banner server serving 10,000,000 banners per day.
* http://isohunt.com/ - the most comprehensive bittorrent search engine. 7.4 million unique visitors per month, ~25m hits per day
* http://www.meebo.com - multi-protocol web IM
* http://itv.mop.com/ - 200 - 500 hits/s per host for static contents, like css, gif, cab and xml files.
* http://www.nexopia.com/ - serves 35 million dynamic requests per day to an array of php servers
* http://reddit.com/ - 1000th most popular site on Alexa
* http://pingomatic.com/ - 10 million hits/day
* http://www.playahead.se - one of Sweden's most popular social-networking websites (~1000-4000 req/s). Lighttpd on Debian.
* http://sourceforge.net - alexa top 100
* http://www.torrentreactor.to - ~200 req/s
* http://untz.ca - Toronto-based community site, records 300-500 hits/s using load-balanced FastCGI.
* http://upload.wikimedia.org/ - Upload site for wikipedia, wikimedia, etc.
* http://www.world-of-smilies.com - Largest Smilies page in german language. 100-200 req/s, 3 million users. Lighttpd on Debian.
* http://www.youtube.com - The most famous video sharing site in the world.
* http://www.zshare.net - Uses LigHTTPD for all file servers, over 2000 req/s at any given time.
== more than 1mio req/day (or 10 req/s) ==
* http://www.adsxchange.lv/ - serving 1,500,000 banner exposes per day.
* http://alistapart.com/ - 1 million hits/day
* http://www.animersion.net/ - Spanish BitTorrent site, ~30 req/s, 200k users. Powered by FreeBSD on a Dual Xeon.
* http://www.bjork.com/ - ~2M hits/day. Lighttpd/mysql/eaccelerator/php - Dual pIII 1.27GHz/2GB ram - Zero workload.
* http://www.dark-future.org - A gangster MMORPG serving about 1.500.000 dynamic pages each day. (700GB/month)
* http://www.festzeit.ch - Local Community in Basle/Switzerland. lighty/php/apc/mysql on Dual Xeon/4GB RAM for php (800GB/month, 3.2Mpages/day). 2 machines for images, each Athlon/2GB RAM (2.3TB/month combined).
* http://www.imagepile.net/ - Serving over 5 million images per day, powered by a farm of servers running Lighttpd!
* http://www.imageshack.us/
* http://www.merchantcircle.com/ - US local business directory. ~2.5M hits/day.
* http://www.mijnasl.be - Large free profile page (in dutch), pushes out some 10Gb a day with peaks to 50 reqs/s, mostly static pictures
* http://www.mininova.org - Average torrents downloaded per day: 454864 (18953 per hour, 316 per minute, 5.3 per second)
* http://www.osloskop.net/ - one of the largest eMule/eDonkey/Overnet sites. 3 000 000 hits per day on a Celeron 2.4GHz 512MB RAM
* http://www.penny-arcade.com - Powered by a diskless FreeBSD 6.0 Server.
* http://r4l.com - The single Hosting server for Register4less handles 15req/s (~ 1.3M req/day) using a custom Plugin for Lighty.
* http://schlach.com - 30,000 users and about 4 million hits/day
* http://www.shakiramedia.com - 15 req/s (mostly dynamic content), ~150GB/day. Debian & CentOS powered.
* http://www.sk-gaming.com - International eSports Community, up to 30 req/s dynamic php content (just switched from Apache to Lighttpd, everything works fine)
* http://www.torrents.md - A BitTorrent tracker from Republic of Moldova what serve ~200.000 hits per hour, ~90 req/s
* http://torrentz.com - the best torrent indexer!
* http://web-log.nl/ - 160,000 active users and 2.8 million dynamic page views per day
* http://www.webkinz.com - Flash gaming portal, ~4M hits/day (65% swf, 30% php), 30-40 dynamic req/s peaktime
* http://upload.wikimedia.org/
* http://wikispaces.com - large wiki farm
== at bit less than 1mio req/day ==
=== a - m ===
* http://allcoins.org/
* http://www.alltrix.de - Multi-lingual live news search engine
* http://moinx.antbear.org/ - Personal Wiki for Mac OS X
* http://www.bf2s.com - BF2S.com is the largest Battlefield 2 Stats website. Weee! (Powered by CentOS and Lighttpd)
* http://dev-1.borgforge.net/ - Development site for !CastPodder and pyBMP
* http://www.butlerandtanner.com/ - UK's leading printer. Running Dual 3Ghz Xeon's, Fedora Core 5, Rails, PHP, MySQL
* http://www.cad-comic.com - Ctrl+Alt+Del, one of the biggest webcomic one the internet. Powered by FreeBSD and Lighttpd.
* http://destiney.com/ - serving up free PHP script downloads.
* http://www.deutscher-investment-report.de/ - German financial site
* http://www.douban.com/ - Chinese book/movie/music related social network site, serving 11 million hits/day (and counting) from one basic server.
* http://www.dana.freedns.us:81/ - a list of the latest links on alt.comp.freeware and alt.comp.freeware.games - Lycos VDS running Debian testing
* http://www.extendi.it - Italian Web Agency - Web Based Application. Powered by Debian on a P4 3GHz.
* http://www.hamarungdom.no/
* http://mirror.inode.at/ - Mirror hosting several opensource projects. Does around 1TB/day.
* http://www.insanum.com - Running on a Linode 160 and serving 10+ virtual sites. Lighttpd rocks!
* http://www.InsiderPages.com/ - Customer reviews of local businesses
* http://www.inthemafia.com - Popular Mafia RPG running on a load balanced cluster using lighttpd
* http://www.lufee.de/ - Personalized news ~500k h/day
* http://www.mikrocontroller.net - Articles, News, Forums about microcontrollers, 350k req/day
* http://www.mountainofpromos.com/ - Promotional products site built with Rails on a vserver(ish) host running Debian.
* http://www.cyberciti.biz/ - Linux sys admin site and blog (15k req/day). Runs on RHEL 4.0
=== n - z ===
* http://www.onlinepokertour.com/ - Online poker freeroll tournaments. 14,000+ users, used to serve dynamic PHP and static files alike.
* http://www.opentel.com.ve/ - Opentel Solutions Inc - Kannel, Mbuni, Asterisk, GNU/Linux, Debian, Postgresql, Catalyst, ...
* http://oslookup.org/ - serves smoothly dynamic requests and cached html pages
* http://palmsphere.com - Online software store
* http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ - 2req/s, average 9mb per request, 200gb/day, mirror site for Fedora, Centos, Ubuntu, Etc
* http://www.pflegewiki.de/ - german wiki about care
* http://pdftextonline.com - PDF text extraction in your browser; 10K PDF documents uploaded daily
* http://www.ratemyparking.net/ - Ratemyparking! Pictures of bad parking and funny parking related pictures.
* http://www.rsolunas.de - Open Source Hotel Booking Engine.
* http://www.smart-money-research.com/ - Smart Money Research site
* http://www.snapscouts.de/ - big German party-pictures website on 4 lightys
* http://snowtide.com - Home of Snowtide Informatics Systems and PDFTextStream
* http://sproglogs.com/ - a popular online baby blog site running Rails on Debian
* http://www.stilopower.de/ - Fiat Tuning vom Stilo, Stilo Umbau in Löbau Oberlausitz Sachsen
* http://www.stormtracker.se - A Swedish live lightning site covering Scandinavia. Running obsd 3.8 amd64 on a P4/4GB RAM with heavy loads during seasons. Also hosts mirror.OpenBSD.se and mirror.OpenSSH.se
* http://the.syntactic-sugar.org - Personal weblog of bwolf
* http://www.techno4ever.net - Techno Trance Dance Webradio - ~15.000 Hits per Day
* http://www.theadmin.org - Weblog proudly running on Lighttpd/Debian. ~1000req/day
* http://www.thecenter.at/ - big community gaming website with tons of recent news, several terabyte of downloads, large forum, ...
* http://www.townvibes.com/search?q=sunnyvale - Review and local search engine. runs on Load-balanced servers, optimized for speed and reliability - for simplified data processing on large clusters
* http://www.townvibes.com/talk - Connect with your neighbors
* http://www.transfermarkt.de/ - Large German soccer website, ~120k visits/day and 12m hits/day delivering 2.6m dynamic pages (PHP) per day. Due to lighttpd on debian this can be done no more than two p4-servers.
* http://www.upick.de/
* http://vyt.vzljot.ru/trac_russian - Trac project in Russian. Lighttpd/ALTLinux in vservers also served all internal corporate projects. Lighttpd is really great after huge apache2, brrr...
* http://weblog.wunschheim.de - Personal weblog
* http://yakimaherald.com - First Major Newpaper Website done with Rails and Lighttpd! 70,000+ dynamic page views per day.
* http://www.bnbest.com - Bnbest est le site d'annonces de vente de gîtes et maison d'hôtes en Europe. Les annonces sont déposées par des propriétaires et des agences immobilières.
== Personal (Personal website running on lighttpd) ==
=== a - m ===
* http://www.colddarkness.com - Personal site featuring my computer projects powered by freebsd, hardened-php and lighttpd, I get about 200 hits a day. Go to the site to learn about the hardware.
=== n - z ===
* http://svendavid.ath.cx - Personal site featuring information about myself. It's running on an nslu2, so lighttpd is the best choice for memory and stability.
* http://www.uncoolcentral.com - A compendium of odd original content and links to others'. Running lighty on a P4 2.4ghz w/ 1gb.
== unsorted ( have to be merged into the previous section) ==
* http://1passwd.com - Password Manager for Mac OS X
* http://www.brockinc.com/ - Company providing web design and hosting on lighttpd.
* http://www.bushtarion.com/ - A web/tick based strategy game, running on a pair of Opteron 244 processors, 2GB of RAM, and RAID 5, and easily handling over 25,000 hits an hour running PHP/MySQL, barely touching the CPU.
* http://devlists.com - Easy to use mailing list reader
* http://www.dmbtabs.com/ - One of the largest Dave Matthews Band fan websites and the premiere source of tablature.
* http://www.dnspark.com/ - Provides URL redirection for thousands of customers via lighttpd using a cluster of CentOS based systems.
* http://www.easy-procure.com/ - e-Sourcing software (e-Auctions, e-RFX), which produces heavy load when several 1h auctions run at the same time
* http://esl.eu/ - Electronic Sports League, a very big european league for online computer games; uses lighty for static files and apache for php etc.
* http://www.fussball-forum.de - discussionforum, magazine and statistics for german and international football.
* http://irc-galleria.net/ - a social networking site with over 340 000 registered users and over 4 000 000 pictures. 280 000 hits per day. Uses lighttpd in combination with apache2.
* http://www.mausland.de - Creators of Flash and Java games. 4 TB Transfer / Month, 5mio. hits/day, 130.000 unique visitors per day. Running on a single pentium4 machine with FreeBSD and lighttpd
* http://mypicpals.com - Easy-to-use Flash slideshow generator with free on-line storage. Shows can easily be embedded in web pages.
* http://mwg.pl - polish online game, about 800 000 php pages / day
* htp://www.shareosiol.com - Polish eMule forums, about 10 000 unik visit per day / Powered by FreeBSD
* http://www.premium-football.com/ - iSe Hospitality's webshop for selling premium tickets to the World Cup
* http://rapidshare.ru - Russian file-sharing site. Using lighty for large file downloads, 500-600 Gb per day.
* http://showmedo.com/ - Tutorial videos (we call them ShowMeDos) for geeks, by geeks - programming, art, finance with more to come
* http://www.shrani.si/ - Slovenian free multimedia hosting service 60 req/sec, 3 TB transfer/month, CentOS 4 powered
* http://www.swim-talk.com - Community for swimmers in Switzerland (and hopefully soon in Europe)
* http://tvrss.net/ - Syndication for your television shows. About 12 req/s, 300GB+ transfer/month on a few PHP generated RSS feeds.
* http://www.utorrent.com - BitTorrent Client website running on lighttpd
* http://www.ajaxwhois.com - The easiest way to find a domain name.
* http://www.benr75.com - Personal Blog running with Lighttpd on top of Mac OS X on an Xserve.
* http://www.catchgamer.no - A popular gaming-site in Norway.
* http://www.csoft.net - Hosting company providing dedicated lighttpd instances on Unix servers from USD$25/month.
* http://dbristot.info - Daniel Bristot Personal Blogs, FreeBSD, Lighttpd and PHP
* http://www.ebesucher.de - the biggest visitor exchange ("besuchertausch") in germany with over 1000 user concurrently online
* http://www.game-monitor.com - Game server search engine and monitoring
* http://www.lelombrik.net - A humoristic website (in french).
* http://www.pixelquelle.de - large site for royalty free photos - powered by debian linux / lighttpd / mysql / php5
* http://www.steubentech.com - Consulting company providing PHP, PostgresSQL, and MySQL applications (Sun Netra T1, Solaris 10)
* http://www.townvibes.com/search - Review and local search engine. Connect with your neighbors
* http://www.snippety.org - BSD, Linux, Windows tips and tricks website powered by Freebsd/Radiant/RoR/mysql/lighttpd
== lighttpd specific ==
* http://www.kevinworthington.com:8181/?cat=20 - Windows version of Lighttpd running the same.
* http://www.lighttpd.net/ - 1-2 req/s :)