Lighttpd

= 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.

• http://www.thecenter.at/ - big community gaming website with tons of recent news, several terabyte of downloads, large forum, ...
• http://destiney.com/ - serving up free PHP script downloads.
• 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.hamarungdom.no/
• http://www.imagepile.net/ - Serving thousands of images per day on minimal hardware with the help of lighttpd!
• http://www.adsxchange.lv/ - serving 1,500,000 banner exposes per day.
• http://web-log.nl/ - 160,000 active users and 2.8 million dynamic page views per day.
• http://pingomatic.com/ - 10 million hits/day
• http://alistapart.com/ - 1 million hits/day
• http://www.nexopia.com/ - serves 35 million dynamic requests per day to an array of php servers
• http://schlach.com - 30,000 users and about 4 million hits/day
• http://www.mininova.org - Average torrents downloaded per day: 454864 (18953 per hour, 316 per minute, 5.3 per second)
• http://itv.mop.com/ - 200 - 500 hits/s per host for static contents, like css, gif, cab and xml files.
• http://oslookup.org/ - serves smoothly dynamic requests and cached html pages
• http://allcoins.org/
• http://www.pflegewiki.de/ - german wiki about care
• http://www.torrentreactor.to - ~200 req/s
• http://www.lighttpd.net/ - 1-2 req/s :)
• http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/ - 2req/s, average 9mb per request, 200gb/day, mirror site for Fedora, Centos, Ubuntu, Etc
• http://www.animersion.net/ - Spanish BitTorrent site, ~30 req/s, 200k users. Powered by FreeBSD on a Dual Xeon.
• http://www.penny-arcade.com - Powered by a diskless FreeBSD 6.0 Server.
• http://www.cad-comic.com - Ctrl+Alt+Del, one of the biggest webcomic one the internet. Powered by FreeBSD and Lighttpd.
• http://www.bf2s.com - BF2S.com is the largest Battlefield 2 Stats website. Weee! (Powered by CentOS and Lighttpd)
• 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.mijnasl.be - Large free profile page (in dutch), pushes out some 10Gb a day with peaks to 50 reqs/s, mostly static pictures
• http://yakimaherald.com - First Major Newpaper Website done with Rails and Lighttpd! 70,000+ dynamic page views per day.
• http://www.shakiramedia.com - 15 req/s (mostly dynamic content), ~150GB/day. Debian & CentOS powered.
• http://www.meebo.com - multi-protocol web IM
• http://www.mikrocontroller.net - Articles, News, Forums about microcontrollers, 350k req/day
• http://www.webkinz.com - Flash gaming portal, ~4M hits/day (65% swf, 30% php), 30-40 dynamic req/s peaktime
• http://www.insanum.com - Running on a Linode 160 and serving 10+ virtual sites. Lighttpd rocks!
• http://www.theadmin.org - Weblog proudly running on Lighttpd/Debian. ~1000req/day
• 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://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://upload.wikimedia.org/
• http://www.imageshack.us/
• http://www.bjork.com/ - ~2M hits/day. Lighttpd/mysql/eaccelerator/php - Dual pIII 1.27GHz/2GB ram - Zero workload.
• 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.onlinepokertour.com/ - Online poker freeroll tournaments. 14,000+ users, used to serve dynamic PHP and static files alike.
• http://www.festzeit.ch - Local Community in Basle/Switzerland. [http://82.195.230.50/lighttpd-status lighty/php/eaccelerator/mysql on Dual Xeon/4GB RAM for php (200GB/month, 1.2Mpages/day)]. [http://213.202.245.99/lighttpd-status lighty on AthlonXP/2GB RAM for images (600GB/month)]. Both Debian and very low load.
• 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://mirror.inode.at/ - Mirror hosting several opensource projects. Does around 1TB/day.