Lighttpd

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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 100mio req/day (or 1000 req/s) * http://www.layer-ads.de - Layer advertising, ~2500-3000 req/s (average) * http://isohunt.com/ - the most comprehensive bittorrent search engine. ~8 million unique visitors per month, 550-1300 req/s * http://www.mininova.org - Number 1 torrent site, according to Alexa. ~600-1200+ req/s ([http://www.mininova.org/stats/graphs/ stats URL]). * http://www.sendspace.com - One of the most popular one-click web hosters, tens of terabytes a day. Alexa 100. * 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 10mio req/day (or 100 req/s) * http://www.opensubtitles.org - DivX Subtitles open db. cca 100 req/s, FreeBSD, 2 servers yet * http://www.imagesocket.com - Free, fast and friendly image host powered by FreeBSD, Lighttpd, MySQL and PHP. * 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.douban.com/ - Chinese book/movie/music/blog/travel related social network site, serving 12 million hits/day (and counting) from one basic gentoo server. * 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://www.imagepile.net/ - Serving over 15 million images per day, powered by a farm of servers running Lighttpd! * http://inbox.lv/ - serving 350,000 active e-mail users, as well as a banner server serving 10,000,000 banners 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://schlach.com - german online community with about 80,000 users and 12 million hits/day * 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.frazpc.pl - Largest polish technology site, all static content done by Lighttpd 100-200req/s. Lighttpd on Debian. * http://ftpserver.gnosticos.net -Gnosis On line .
more than 1mio req/day (or 10 req/s) * http://www.gamecenter.pl/ - MMORPG Polish forum. ~1M hits/day * http://bash.org.pl/ - funny quotes. averrage ~15req/s * http://www.top-game.net/ - flash game`s portal. ~3M hits/day * http://www.adsxchange.lv/ - serving 1,500,000 banner exposes per day. * http://www.2142-stats.com - BF2142 Stats page. About 40-50 req/s, up to 2M req per day. Split on 2 servers with Lighty. * 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.binsearch.info/ - Usenet search engine indexing binary content. Lighttpd / PHP / custom C++ FastCGI application. * 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.freeshare.us - Free Image Hosting. Lighttpd/mysql/eaccelerator/php. average 15req/s , over 1.2 million req/day . * 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.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://www.pensieriparole.it/ - Slackware Linux / Lighttpd / MySQL / PHP / Zend Optimizer on a Supermicro server - handles ~ 1.9 million hits/day (22 req/s) * http://r4l.com - The single Hosting server for Register4less handles 15req/s (~ 1.3M req/day) using a custom Plugin for Lighty. * http://www.vide.de - One of the most thriving and interesting online print and poster retailer providing framed posters, art prints, fine art prints, art reproductions and photography (Germany) * http://www.alriyadh.com/ - Largest Saudi Newspaper, 14 req/s, static content only, dynamic still served by Apache. FreeBSD 6.1, 1GB RAM. * http://www.shakiramedia.com - 15 req/s (mostly dynamic content), ~150GB/day. Debian & CentOS powered. * http://www.streeteasy.com - In front of Rails farm for NYC real estate search site. * 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://wikispaces.com - large wiki farm * http://www.masalaguru.com - NSFW Video Streaming Site featuring South Asian Content * http://mononoke-bt.org - French Anime Torrents Site ~4M req/day - Debian / Lighttpd / eAccelerator / MySQL / PHP a 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.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://free.forums.ms/ - Free Punbb forum hosting provider. Lighttpd / PHP / Sqlite. * 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.kidscottage.co.uk - Online Toy Store running on a load balanced lighttpd cluster * 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 * http://www.bildblog.de/ - German Watchblog, watching mistakes of BILD

=== n - z === * http://otfans.net - Biggest Otserv Community, Debian, MySQL, PHP * 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://www.euro-truck.biz - Buses project weblog * http://www.server-list.info - Server List For edonkey / Running lighty on a Celeon 2.4ghz w/ 1gb. * 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. * http://www.jasondavies.com - Jason Davies, Web designer & developer * http://www.joelee.org - Joe Lee, Web application developer & a big-fan of lighttpd * http://friederschueler.de - Personal Weblog about Webwork, Linux, Wordpress and personal Stuff. 400 Visits per Day. * http://fxp0.org.ua/ - Personal site and blog of Denis Kuzmichyov, running lighttpd + django via fastcgi

=== n - z === * http://robert-gogolok.de - Personal weblog running typo. * http://slz.sytes.net/ - Stealth Landing Zone (info about some servers running on it + forum) * 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. * http://wilkart.ecoid.org - Ecology vs Technology; Personal weblog; Testing environment of lighttpd.

unsorted ( have to be merged into the previous section) * http://1passwd.com - Password Manager for Mac OS X * http://www.heizweb.de - German Energy, Solar Page * 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://www.stockalicious.com - Stock website * http://rapidshare.ru - Russian file-sharing site. Using lighty for large file downloads, 500-600 Gb per day. * http://www.videposters.co.uk - Thousands of posters, paintings, art prints, choose poster, painting or art print and frame it online at videposters.co.uk gallery * 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 :) * http://www.kastrati.de.tl