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Lightweight Web Serving With thttpd

This article first appeared on this date in O’Reilly’s ONLamp.com online publication. The content was deleted sometime in 2019 but I was lucky enough to find a copy in the WayBack Machine. I reformatted the text to fit the style of this site and fixed broken links, but otherwise the content is a verbatim reproduction of what was originally published. The Apache HTTP Server is the most popular web server due to its functionality, stability, and maturity. However, this does not make it suitable for all uses: slow machines and embedded systems may have serious problems running it because of its size. Here is where lightweight HTTP servers come into play, as their low-memory footprints deliver decent results without having to swap data back to disk.

October 13, 2005 · Tags: <a href="/tags/featured">featured</a>, <a href="/tags/onlamp">onlamp</a>, <a href="/tags/unix">unix</a>, <a href="/tags/web">web</a>
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