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h1. = Powered By 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. Please include Include traffic (requests/s) details. 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 you 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 


 h1. TLD. (this goes for you too, 99.233.84.72) 

 == more than 100mio req/day (or 1000 req/s) 
 
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  * http://eztv.it http://barafranca.com - One of the largest bittorrent sites related to tv shows. peaks over 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://fotoparked.com - İmage Host | Resim Yükle. Your image Gallery. 
  * 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://GreenUpload.Com - Free image uploaded website powered by lighttpd. 
  * http://isohunt.com/ - The 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.layer-ads.de - Layer advertising, ~2500-3000 req/s (average) 
  * 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 
 photos. 
  * http://www.phim88.com - Free Online movies and drama, series movies, TV shows. This site using lighttpd for image and video serving. 
  * https://www.photoshop.com/express/index.html?bypass&wf=testdrive - Adobe Photoshop Express test drive site. lighttpd/1.5.0 
  * 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 popuplar online communities in Southern Germany. Up to 2000 requests per second. 
  * http://thepiratebay.org/ - One of the most popular bittorrent sites. 1400 trackers. 
  * http://www.webkinz.com - Virtual pet Flash gaming portal for kids. Multiple boxes, 1000+ dynamic req/s avg. spread among several servers 
 average, more than 2500 req/s peak time. 
  * http://www.tube8.com/ http://www.youtube.com - Adult The most famous video sharing site with streaming videos. Uses lighttpd for thumbnail images and videos. Thumbnail server alone is 3+ kreq/s 
 in the world.  
  * http://www.zshare.net - Uses LigHTTPD for all file servers, over 2000 req/s at any given time 


 h1. time. 
  * http://www.tuenti.com - Uses LigHTTPD, over 1200 req/s. 

 == more than 10mio req/day (or 100 req/s) 

 == 
  * http://www.allkpop.com/ http://adams.co.uk - The largest English-language Korean music and celebrity news site (200-400 req/s) 
 e-commerce channel of major UK childrenswear retail chain. FreeBSD, Mysql, PHP, lighty 1.4.18. > 150req/s avg. 
  * http://www.argentinawarez.com/ http://www.best-bums.com - Spanish open community, Adult Fun site with competitions and streaming videos. Using Lighttpd + PHP + XCache as frontend Lighty for high traffic dynamic all FLV and static content. (around ~300-500 req/s, ~16 MB/s, Alexa <2k, Lighttpd on CentOS 5.)  
 thumbnail requests... 
  * 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 http://www.cpturbo.org - A dating website. 
 Number 1 torrent site in Brazil, according to Alexa. 
  * 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.phpbb8.de/ http://www.draugiem.lv - Huge german free forum hosting system, a social networking site with more than 20,000 hosting forums. (>200req/s, 7 MB/s, ~30K users online 
  * http://duggmirror.com - Mirror site for tech news site digg.com 
  * http://www.e-univers.org - Space browsing game, ads distribution servers run Lighttpd on Debian 5) 
 Debian, and some game servers too (200 to 400req/s) 
  * 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/ http://www.emedian.de - Swedish music and clothing community (Alternative music such as EMO/Screamo and fashioncore.) ~100req/s. Lighttpd Emedian Network - Central European Hosting/Community-Company, Using Lighty now on a HP DL145 G3 serving all static files. 
 approx. half of the Servers 
  * http://esports.lv/ http://file.lv - Latvian national sports portal - video broadcasting, video reviews, galleries, reviews. 
 torrent tracker, > 70 000 users, > 30 000 unique a day. Gentoo, Lighttpd 1.5, MySQL, PHP, > 200-400 req/s. 
  * 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.gashcamea.com - social networking website mainly for romanian users. Has english and german partial language support though. Using lighty for PHP scripts and image serving on 2 dedicated boxes. 
  * http://www.gesichterparty.de - German Web 2.0 community, 250,000 users. 3.4 million users, 150 million PI per month. Lighttpd on Ubuntu.  
 
  * http://www.ichflirt.de http://ftpserver.gnosticos.net -Gnosis On line . 
  * http://www.imagehosting.gr - German Flirt Community, Debian with custom patched Lighttpd + FastCGI PHP5 
 image & video host. Uses 100% lighttpd. 
  * http://www.imagepile.net/ - Serving over 20 million images per day, powered by a farm of servers running Lighttpd! (200+req/s) 
  * 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 <3k, ~200 req/s, ~2.5 MB/s, ~15M 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://www.model-kartei.de - Model and Photographers community. Serving 25.000.000 req/day. 
  * 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.oiegg.com - 70s req/s 
 * http://rapidok.com - file search engine, ~60-80s req/s, Lighttpd+FreeBSD+MySQL+php 5.3.3  
 * 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.partys-bei-uns.de/ - Imageserver for german lifestyle-community, lighttpd on debian, peaks with 1000 req/s 
  * 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://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://proxylist.co/ - Proxy List with it's own proxy test engines - 75-110 req/s. 65K Alexa 
 * http://www.rapidshare.net/ - A big RapidShare Search Engine with ~150 req/s. 
 * 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.smileygarden.de- World Famous Smileys Community in german language. >> 200-300req/s 
  * http://www.social-bookmark-script.de/ - popular social bookmark script, peaks with 1100+ req/s ("stats URL":http://www.social-bookmark-script.de/serverauslastung.htm). 
 ([http://www.social-bookmark-script.de/serverauslastung.htm stats URL]). 
  * http://sourceforge.net - alexa top 100 
 
  * http://www.skins.be http://www.snapscouts.de - Celebrity Wallpaper Site. Using Lighttpd 1.5 (gamin) + PHP5.3.3 (php-fpm/xcache) ~150 req/s with peaks of 250 req/s (setup questions? bofh@skins.be) 
 German social-networking site focussing on party images 50M Pi/m using lighty for static/dynamic files 
  * http://www.thestocksprofit.com/ http://www.spieleforfree.de - Technical Analysis and Hot stock picks for worldwide exchange markets in 40 languages, German Gamesite ~100 req/s on peaks, Apache2 + FastCGI + MySQL + Lighttpd for static content (images, js, css, xml feeds). 
 
  * http://www.techno4ever.net - Techno Radio Community. ~105 req/s 
 
  * http://www.torrentreactor.to - ~200 req/s 
 
  * http://tuenti.com - Social Network in Spanish - ~480 req/s 
  * http://untz.ca - Toronto-based community site, records 300-500 hits/s using load-balanced FastCGI. 
 
  * http://www.upzilla.net http://www.upload69.net - File free image hosting and streaming video, audio, photo, and document 
 
  * http://www.wat.tv - French media sharing website - 500-700 req/s 
  * 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/ http://wikispaces.com - german windows online magazine, ~275 large wiki farm, >> 100 req/s 
 
  * http://www.yourbittorrent.com/ http://www.willis-witze.de - Torrent Search Engine German fun-website with ~150 req/s. 
 a lot of funny quotes and jokes 
  * http://www.world-of-smilies.com - Largest Smilies page in german language. 100-200 req/s, 3 million users. Lighttpd on Debian. 
  * 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... 


 h1. webhosting providers 

 
  * http://SeoHost.us - SEO Web hosting provider located in USA 
 == more than 1mio req/day (or 10 req/s) == 

  * http://www.1ago.be http://www.2142-stats.com - Web hosting provider located 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.adsxchange.lv/ - serving 1,500,000 banner exposes per day. 
  * http://alistapart.com/ - 1 million hits/day 
  * http://www.alriyadh.com/ - Largest Saudi Newspaper, ~35 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://bash.org.pl/ - Polish funny quotes. ~35req/s 
  * 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.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.cemzoo.com - Anime and VideoGames spanish community 
  * http://www.cosmotourist.de and http://www.cosmotourist.com - Global Travelportal using Lighttp, fastcgi php and solr for searchindexing 
  * http://www.dark-future.org - A gangster MMORPG serving about 1.500.000 dynamic pages each day. (700GB/month) 
  * http://diginights.com - Popular Nightlife Page in Belgium South West Germany, AdServer and Netherlands. 
 Images powered by lighty. 
  * http://www.cretaforce.gr http://www.e-frontier.com - Premium web hosting provider located 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://www.elite-electronix.com - A consumer electronics website. Using thumbnails in Greece (Lighttpd our wholesale section. 
  * http://evilpuma.com/our_sites - 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.freeshare.us - Free Image Hosting. Lighttpd/php/mysql/xcache. average 35req/s , over 3 million req/day .  
  * http://www.gamecenter.pl/ - MMORPG Polish forum. ~1M hits/day 
  * http://www.gulli.com/ - Static / image content handling 
  * http://www.gizmodo.com.au/ - Technology blog. Lighttpd/PHP/MySQL, Pentium D 3.00 GHz/4GB RAM, average 35-40 req/s. 
  * http://www.honeynova.com/ - BitTorrent minimal Index 
  * http://www.ichflirt.de - German Flirt Community, Debian with custom patched Lighttpd + FreeBSD) 
 FastCGI PHP5 
  * http://www.dlnet.org http://www.justteensite.com/ - Web hosting provider located in Adult erotic site. Using Lighty for all thumbnail requests. 
  * http://www.torrentrealm.com/ - Private BitTorrent Tracker 
  * http://www.kidscottage.co.uk - Toy Store running on a FreeBSD cluster with Lighttpd, Memcached and MySQL. 
  * 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://mononoke-bt.org - French Anime Torrents Site ~4M req/day - Debian / Lighttpd / eAccelerator / MySQL / PHP 
  * 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.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://www.personallifemedia.com/ - Leading lifestyle podcast site for US (west coast).    CentOS Linux v5.0 / MySQL / Ruby / Rails  
  * 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 handles 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.spectare.de - Car groups , Debian 4.0 / Lighttpd / MySQL / Ruby 
  * 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.top-game.net/ - flash game`s portal. ~3M hits/day 
  * http://www.torrentsmd.com - A BitTorrent tracker from Republic of Moldova what serve ~200.000 hits per hour, ~90 req/s 
  * http://torrentz.com - the UK (Lighttpd best torrent indexer! 
  * http://web-log.nl/ - 160,000 active users and 2.8 million dynamic page views per day 
  * http://www.worldofcheatz.com/ - German Cheats Site ~11 req/s 
  * http://www.zkouknito.cz/ - Czech video streaming project , Debian 4.0 - kernel 2.6.22-2-amd64 / Apache2 + Debian). 
 PHP -> proxy -> lighttpd 1.5 / MySQL ~ 200-400 req/s 
  * http://www.euroland.it http://www.superstars-world.pl - Hosting/vps polish online game, Gentoo / Lighty / PHP / MySQL - ~1 mio. reqs / day 
  * http://cruisersblog.de - Several sites hosted... including a debian-mirror 
  * http://www.mafiacrime.org/ - Web-based game - Lighttpd/PHP/MySQL, ~20 req/s, Athlon 6000+ Dual Core, 8 GB DDR2, 1gbit connection (also a seperate lighttpd-powered server provider Italy.  
 for uploaded images) 
  * http://www.kinghost.com.br http://www.openphrases.com/ - Free keyword analysis and suggestion, FreeBSD, Lighttpd, PHP5, MySQL, Sphinx, ~20 req/s yet 
  * http://softwareblogs.intel.com - One of many Linux hosted Intel websites running Lighty 
  * 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://vuodatus.net/ - large Finnish blogging service. > 30 regs/s, dual Xeon 3.0 Ghz, 1Gb Ram on lighttpd/MySQL/PHP 

 == webhosting providers == 
  * http://www.cretaforce.gr - Web hosting provider located in Brazil 
 Greece. 
  * http://www.leoneo.com http://vpslink.com - VPS Hosting Provider in United States 
  * http://www.edsi-tech.com - Web hosting provider located in China. 
 Switzerland (used for control panel) 
  * http://www.lighthost.co.il http://www.leoneo.com - Web hosting provider located in Israel. 
 China. 
  * http://simple-webhosting.eu http://www.bodhost.com - European web hosting provider 


 h1. Large content servers (ie. mirrors) 

 Dedicated and VPS Hosting Provider in United States 
  * http://ftp.df.lth.se http://www.bodhost.co.uk - OpenSource mirror with over 11TB content running FreeBSD. Avg.: 80req/s, 300Mbps Dedicated and Peak: 300req/s and 1Gbps.  
 VPS Hosting Provider in United Kingdom 
  * http://www.profischnell.de http://www.ptxl.net - Translation 
 VPS Hosting provider in United States 
  * http://mirror.dkm.cz/ http://www.webnethosting.net - Opensource mirror (ooo,mandriva,ubuntu,gentoo,freebsd,debian,sabayon,etc.) of czech ISP. Running gentoo, lighty trunk Cloud VPS and Dedicated Hosting provider in United States with mod_mem_cache. avg. 9req/s, 13MiB/s, peaking 45req/s, 65MiB/s.  
 Data Centers in Europe and Asia as well 

 == Unknown == 
  * http://mirror.inode.at/ http://podfiles.zdf.de/ - Opensource mirror (clamav, debian, fedora, gentoo, kernel, etc.) of austrian ISP. avg. 12req/s 7.7MiB/s 


 h1. ZDF Podcasts/Files 
  * http://orbe.us - the largest spanish IT Conference 

 == 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/ https://www.kevinworthington.com/?cat=20 - Fedora and RHEL/CentOS version of Lighttpd. (Original Older Windows builds too) 
 
  * http://www.portedeurope.org - Translation 
 * http://www.lighty2go.com/ - A (Win32) portable LiMP Stack on a Stick...