I got application server running in Windows – IIS6.0 with Zend Server to execute PHP. I am looking for lightweight static content only web server on this same machine which will relive IIS form handling static content and increase performance.
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Did you turn on the static content feature?
The Web Server (IIS) Support in the Application Server role services is there to provide integration with IIS to allow you to host applications using technologies such as WCF.
If your application is just a plain ASP.NET/ASP/CGI/etc app and you're not utilising COM+, HTTP activation, Distributed Transactions then you can go ahead and safely remove this role.
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Nginx is available on Windows if you want to serve things from that. Unfortunately the 'Windows web-server' space is very dominated by IIS, followed by Apache.