I'd like to use Lighttpd in production for serving Django apps but i see that these days Nginx is more and more popular. Why is that? I'm aware that in the past Lighttpd had memory leaks but isn't this fixed now? They do have active developers that fix this kind of things don't they?
Is there any reason i should go with Nginx instead of Lighty? I know that nginx is a great server but is it really that good and better than lighty?
Nginx – Why is Nginx more popular than lighttpd
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I'm a current nginx user and previous lighttpd user and I can only echo the stability issue. Furthermore nginx has active development and often sees a new version released every couple of weeks with new features or minor bug fixes. The configuration file is also quite clear and very powerful once you learn the nginx way of doing things.