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Originally Posted by estabroo
It's a BSD License so you can pretty much use it for whatever
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aha , that's quite interesting
i guess i'm mistaking lighttpd with something else that also has "light" in it's name which i remember was proprietary ..
anyways , after reading more about lighttpd i came to the conclusion that this is exactly what i need since it uses asynchronous polling to handle requests unlike the obnoxious process spawing scheme that apache uses..
this also allowed me to recall some earlier experiences with C++ socket programming a couple of years ago , i wrote a small but highly stable chat server using select() , even at the time i was quite suspicious about why apache forks itself for every single request but given the fact that i hadn't much experience with system administration over a longer time period i couldn't real make a call ...
however , a couple years later and we arrive at the present moment and it becomes crystal clear that the "apache way" is just blatantly ridiculous and unsustainable (at least no longer for me)
thanks alot for this input