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:
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• 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 alphabetic order based on the domain name (without www.).
• don't disguise your server-tag, say yes to lighty! :-)
• do NOT make it sound like advertising, keep it technical

more than 100mio req/day (or 1000 req/s)¶

• http://barafranca.com - the largest online maffia role play game, between 500 and 2000 req/s on eight webservers.
• http://bold.dk - The largest danish soccer community site with news, statistics and livescore. Peaks around 3000 req/s on game day.
• http://imageshack.us - huge image/video host. Uses lighttpd for serving images.
• http://www.joomla.co.il - The Hebrew/RTL Joomla community.
• http://www.grandcentral.com/ - Google's Grand Central - "a number that's not tied to a phone or a location - but tied to you."
• http://isohunt.com/ - the most comprehensive bittorrent search engine. ~8 million unique visitors per month, 550-1300 req/s
• http://islamway.com - The most popular Islamic media web site. Its main web server and media servers are running lighttpd, ~2000 req/s
• http://www.lauxanh.us - Adult Website with streaming videos. Using Lighty for all flv,wmv,avi..
• http://www.mininova.org - Number 1 torrent site, according to Alexa. ~1000-1700+ req/s.
• http://www.movieroom.com - Nine web servers using Lighttpd as a front-end to a single dedicated database/PHP server. Each lighttpd server averages 300/400rps.
• http://www.myspace.com - Using Lighttpd to serve up user's uploaded photos.
• http://www.revver.com - Video network that streams millions of flash videos daily using Lighty. Lighty also powers static content farm and thumbnail farms serving more than 5000 requests/sec.
• http://www.sendspace.com - One of the most popular one-click web hosters, tens of terabytes a day. Alexa 100.
• http://www.team-ulm.de - One of the most popular online communities in Southern Germany. Up to 2000 requests per second.
• http://thepiratebay.org/ - One of the most popular bittorrent trackers.
• http://www.tuenti.com - Most popular social network in Spain, uses LigHTTPD, over 1200 req/s.
• http://www.tube8.com/ - Adult site with streaming videos. Uses lighttpd for thumbnail images and videos. Thumbnail server alone is 3+ kreq/s.
• http://www.webkinz.com - Virtual pet Flash gaming portal for kids. Multiple boxes, 1000+ dynamic req/s average, more than 2500 req/s peak time.
• 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.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.datecafe.co.il - A dating website.
• http://www.douban.com/ - Chinese book/movie/music/blog/events related social network site, serving 35 million hits/day (and counting) from one simple gentoo server.
• http://www.ebuyer.com - The UK's largest independent technology retailer, our image servers run Lighttpd on Debian. (100-200req/s)
• http://www.editgrid.com/ - Web 2.0 Spreadsheet application featuring real-time-update of spreadsheet data
• http://www.emocore.se/ - Swedish music and clothing community (Alternative music such as EMO/Screamo and fashioncore.) ~100req/s. Lighttpd on a HP DL145 G3 serving all static files.
• http://esports.lv/ - Latvian national sports portal - video broadcasting, video reviews, galleries, reviews.
• http://fapomatic.com/ - Huge adult image host. One of the first image hosts to convert to lighty from apache and love it.
• http://forums.d2jsp.org/ - Huge international gaming and trading forums - social network primarily focused around Diablo II (over 600req/s)
• http://www.frazpc.pl - Largest polish technology site, all static content done by Lighttpd 100-200req/s. Lighttpd on Debian.
• http://www.forums-free.com/ - A free forum hosting system, with more than 40,000 hosting forums. Lighttpd + Debian.
• http://www.gesichterparty.de - German community, 250,000 users. Lighttpd on Ubuntu.
• http://ftpserver.gnosticos.net -Gnosis On line .
• http://www.ichflirt.de - German Flirt Community, Debian with custom patched Lighttpd + FastCGI PHP5
• http://www.imagesocket.com - Free, fast and friendly image host powered by FreeBSD, Lighttpd, MySQL and PHP.
• 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.jeuxdecartes.net - Chat & games (french) - ~100 req/s
• http://www.kickasstorrents.com/ - Fast growing torrent search engine. Alexa <5k, ~100 req/s, ~1.5 MB/s, ~7M req per day.
• http://www.kuso.cc/ - The Short URL System, > 100 000 users, > 500 req/s, Lighttpd with own shorturl module, MySQL, PHP.
• http://www.laneros.com - Spanish technological community. Lighttpd on Debian.
• http://www.lua.pl/ - free web hosting with Email, PHP5 & MySQL5, >25000 virtual servers (phpBB2&3,PHP Fusion,Joomal etc) About 55-130 req/s. Debian + Lighttpd 1.4.18 + own modules for ads insertion & dynamic hosts
• http://www.maniatorrent.org - Brazilian BitTorrent site - CentOS - 80~110 req/sec
• 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.narutoproject.com/ - Number 1 anime site in South America. Top 100 in Brazil according to Alexa.
• http://www.nexopia.com/ - serves 35 million dynamic requests per day to an array of php servers
• http://www.olhares.com/ - Photographers online community using lighttpd as a standalone image server with 150-300 req/s.
• http://www.opensubtitles.org - DivX Subtitles open db. cca 100 req/s, FreeBSD, 2 servers yet
• http://www.osloskop.net/ - one of the largest eMule/eDonkey/Overnet sites. 100 req/s on a Celeron 2.4GHz 512MB RAM
• http://www.pokebip.com/ - the most popular pokémon website in France (over 10 millions req/day) for both static and dynamic content
• http://www.pokemondeluge.com/ - a web based pokemon rpg (between 20-30mil req/day) serves both static and dynamic content
• http://reddit.com/ - 1000th most popular site on Alexa
• http://rockz.com/ - Chat community for young people, using lighty on a cluster of webservers serving about 50M hits/day
• http://rongbay.com/ - the largest classifieds of Vietnam. Using Lighty on Centos to serve images. ( ~600req /s)
• http://www.servetechit.co.uk - Serves up browser-based games and other websites which have all static content (images,javascript) included uploaded content served by Lighttpd, sometimes via a frontline proxy
• http://schlach.com - german online community with about 80,000 users and 12 million hits/day
• http://www.social-bookmark-script.de/ - popular social bookmark script, peaks with 1100+ req/s (stats URL).
• http://sourceforge.net - alexa top 100
• http://www.techno4ever.net - Techno Radio Community. ~105 req/s
• http://www.torrentreactor.to - ~200 req/s
• http://untz.ca - Toronto-based community site, records 300-500 hits/s using load-balanced FastCGI.
• http://www.oiegg.com - 70s req/s
• http://www.upzilla.net - File hosting and streaming video, audio, photo, and document
• http://zone.webgarden.cz - Czech blog/templated free web hosting. 350 req/s daily average, 5MB/s daily average. Debian etch, lighty trunk serving static content + 4x php backends.
• http://www.wikidot.com - Wiki hosting service
• http://upload.wikimedia.org/ - Upload site for wikipedia, wikimedia, etc.
• http://winfuture.de/ - german windows online magazine, ~275 req/s
• http://www.yigg.de - german social news community (digg like) with 50M pageviews per month
• http://www.tamtay.vn - vietnamese social network (h5.com like) with 50M pageviews per month. Using Lighty for all FLV and image requests...
• http://www.hitmeister.de - german marketplace for media products

more than 1mio req/day (or 10 req/s)¶

• 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://www.80630.com - Social networking site using Lighty as image server.
• http://www.libreriafacile.it - Online-offline advanced book store manager.
• http://www.adsxchange.lv/ - serving 1,500,000 banner exposes per day.
• http://alistapart.com/ - 1 million hits/day
• http://www.alriyadh.com/ - Largest Saudi Newspaper, ~45 req/s FreeBSD 6.1, 1GB RAM.
• http://www.animersion.net/ - Spanish BitTorrent site, ~30 req/s, 200k users. Powered by FreeBSD on a Dual Xeon.
• http://www.backpackers.com - popular backpacking and budget travel community. Powered by Lighttpd/PHP+Rails.
• http://www.bagsofcrap.com - Durring sales events on another retailer, I average 50 req/s, and peak around 200+. All this on a VPS with 1.5 gig ram and 1/6 share of a dual xeon server!
• 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://bluwiki.com - ~ 2 servers, running lighttpd / mysql / xcache / memcache; Dual core P4 & AMD64; Averaging 60% workload... I'm jealous of Bjork.
• http://boxstr.com - Free File Hosting, 40-70 req/s 3.5-5 million requests a day on a single server (dual quad core xeon, 8 gigs ram, gigabit fiber); Over 275,000+ members with over 2.5 million uploaded files.
• http://www.buzzhumor.com - Serving funny videos, and pictures updated daily. Lighttpd with mod_flv_streaming. 30-40 req/s
• http://www.caibangzi.com - Personal Investment Management Community. >3M req per day. Lighttpd 1.5 / Mongrel / Rails
• http://www.csnstores.com - A niche ecommerce company selling quality home furnishings in over 250 unique online stores uses lighttpd to offload static content requests 3M+ hits/day
• http://www.dark-future.org - A gangster MMORPG serving about 1.500.000 dynamic pages each day. (700GB/month)
• http://www.e-frontier.com - A 3D Software Company who host a number of subsites all on lighty. (averages ~75 req/s has spiked to over 800mbit/sec of downloads upon new software releases)
• http://evilpuma.com/ - 50req/s Avg - We host many forums/sites that couldn't afford good hardware we see over 200req/s on this virtual machine! Debian/Vmware lighttpd 1.5 svn php-cgi w/xcache.
• http://www.gamecenter.pl/ - MMORPG Polish forum. ~1M hits/day
• http://www.garathor.com/ - Browsergame, Lighttpd/FastCGI/PHP/MYSQL, Athlon64 3500+/2GB RAM average 70 req/s.
• http://www.gizmodo.com.au/ - Technology blog. Lighttpd/PHP/MySQL, Pentium D 3.00 GHz/4GB RAM, average 35-40 req/s.
• http://www.israeltour.info/attractions - The Attraction index of Israel.
• http://www.liepajniekiem.lv/ - News portal of region of Liepaja, Latvia. Running on 2 x Quad-Core Xeon E5420 (2.5GHz, 2x6MB, 1333MHz FSB), 8GB RAM (4x2GB Dual Rank DIMMs) 667MHz FBD, 3x146GB SAS 15k 3.5" HD HotPlug.
• http://www.mafiacrime.org/ - Web-based game - Lighttpd/PHP/MySQL, ~40 req/s, Athlon 6000+ Dual Core, 8 GB DDR2 (also a seperate lighttpd-powered server for uploaded images)
• 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.morphex.eu/ - German Community running lighttpd + fast-cgi php5 on 6 servers
• http://www.nokaut.pl/ - Polish price comparison engine. ~50 req/s - Debian + Lighttpd 1.5 + PHP
• 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://pic.leech.it/ - over 5 million hits/day average - fast and free image hoster
• http://www.pixelio.de/ - German photo community for royalty free images, Linux / LightTPD / MySQL / PHP, ~3.5M req/day, ~40 req/s
• http://www.projectwedding.com/ - Wedding community site where brides can share wedding vendor reviews - 12 req/s
• http://r4l.com - The single Hosting server for Register4less serves 10,000+ Web sites - 15req/s (~ 1.3M req/day) using a custom Plugin for Lighty.
• http://mabul.org - Free Image Hosting - Hébergement gratuit d'images - France art reproductions and photography (Germany)
• http://www.sangetsueur.net - Online simulation game (French)
• http://www.shakiramedia.com - 15 req/s (mostly dynamic content), ~150GB/day. Debian & CentOS powered.
• http://www.sites-market.com - a marketplace for Websites and Domain names.
• 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://speles.apollo.lv/ - flash game page for one of most visited portals in Latvia
• http://www.thestocksprofit.com/ - Technical Analysis and Hot stock picks for worldwide exchange markets in 40 languages, ~10 req/s, Apache2 + FastCGI + MySQL + Lighttpd for static content (images, js, css).
• http://www.torrentsmd.com - A BitTorrent tracker from Republic of Moldova what serve ~200.000 hits per hour, ~90 req/s
• http://www.zkouknito.cz/ - Czech video streaming project , Debian 4.0 - kernel 2.6.22-2-amd64 / Apache2 + PHP -> proxy -> lighttpd 1.5 / MySQL ~ 200-400 req/s
• http://www.superstars-world.pl - polish online game, Gentoo / Lighty / PHP / MySQL - ~1 mio. reqs / day
• http://www.openphrases.com/ - Free keyword analysis and suggestion, FreeBSD, Lighttpd, PHP5, MySQL, Sphinx, ~20 req/s yet
• http://www.smartmtk.com - Joomla & RTL Expert.
• http://softwareblogs.intel.com - One of many Linux hosted Intel websites running Lighty
• http://www.techtalkz.com - Free computer help forum Community, lighty delivers all static contents. 1 - 27req/s
• http://userbars.pl http://userbarz.com - userbars hosting, Gentoo Linux + Lighty + PHP + MySQL, ~40req/s on 512MB RAM box, average server load ~0.01
• http://forum.webnetters.org/ - French discussion board , debian (~10 req/s)
• http://vuodatus.net/ - large Finnish blogging service. > 30 regs/s, dual Xeon 3.0 Ghz, 1Gb Ram on lighttpd/MySQL/PHP
• http://forum.worldofplayers.de/ - german gaming community (vBulletin) with 24h average of 5 Mreq, 30-120 req/s, download service also using lighttpd (2x100mbit)
• http://g30rg3x.com/ - g30rg3_x Blog
• http://yashira.org/ - Yashira WarGame

webhosting providers¶

• http://www.lighthost.co.il - Web hosting provider located in Israel.
• http://www.kinghost.com.br - Web hosting provider located in Brazil
• http://www.cretaforce.gr - Premium web hosting provider located in Greece (Lighttpd + FreeBSD)
• http://www.leoneo.com - Web hosting provider located in China.

Large content servers (ie. mirrors)¶

• http://mirror.dkm.cz/ - Opensource mirror (ooo,mandriva,ubuntu,gentoo,freebsd,debian,sabayon,etc.) of Czech ISP. Running gentoo, lightty trunk with mod_mem_cache. avg. 9req/s, 13MiB/s, peaking 45req/s, 65MiB/s.

Unknown¶

• http://podfiles.zdf.de/ - ZDF Podcasts/Files
• http://www.711chan.org/ - 711channel Imageboard Community
• http://ww.mypicpals.com - Slideshow tool / photo sharing site.
• http://bestsportdeals.com - Lists deals for sports products.

lighttpd specific¶

• http://www.lighttpd.net/ - 1-2 req/s :)
• http://en.wlmp-project.net/ - LightTPD based Webserver Package and LightTPD webserver for Windows Systems.
• http://www.kevinworthington.com/tag/lighttpd/ - Fedora and RHEL/CentOS version of Lighttpd. (Original Older Windows builds too)
• http://www.lighty2go.com/ - A (Win32) portable LiMP Stack on a Stick...