While a large proportion of the world's webservers are currently using Apache, a competitor has been steadily gaining popularity on many high-usage sites.
Lighttpd, pronounced "lighty", is a small-footprint, high-speed webserver, and is notably used by sites such as
Sourceforge,
YouTube and
MiniNova. Netcraft state that Lighttpd is currently being used on
1.38 million sites, and is steadily gaining on Sun's share of the market. This introductory article provides a guide to getting Lighttpd installed and configured.