In the mean time, lighttpd does look very promising…

“Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility–all of these describe LightTPD which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments.”

“lighttpd powers several popular Web 2.0 sites like YouTube, wikipedia and meebo. Its high speed io-infrastructure allows them to scale several times better with the same hardware than with alternative webservers.”

The configuration file for lighttpd looks more like source code, rather than a typical ini file. One feature that I am particularly impressed with, that has no Apache counterpart, is the conditional configuration.

Lets hope this project stays afloat. Competition is a good thing, for the end-user.

Also, take a look at the LiteSpeed Web Server.