Hi, List,
I have two questions here, and need your help, I've searched around, got nothing useful. Any directions is highly appreciated.

One of my friends wanna build a website for file uploading. These are all large files, the avg. size should above 100MB.
My question is:

1, which web server is better for this site? Is there any potential performance issues with Apache/Lighttpd/Nginx please?

2, I know that lighttpd and apache support transfer resume, not sure how is going with Nginx. Does Nginx support transfer resume plz?

Thanks & Regards
- Joseph A. Chen

Well, I know YouTube runs off of Lighttpd, and that's a fairly heavy traffic site. My personal preference is Apache, mainly because I know how to configure and troubleshoot it. Another plus in Apache's favor (to me), is that its highly expandable, offering alot of modules and other support, that other web engines MIGHT not have. It would irritate me to no end, to have to rewrite an entire site for a new web engine, so I could turn on one new feature.

As far as transfer resume, I haven't seen it on nginx, but that doesn't mean it's not there. I looked in their knowledgebase, and didn't see mention of it.

I'd suggest that you do some benchmarking.
You could easily set up a VM for each server (or one VM with all three of them, and you just switch around between tests) upload a few files of the expected size and then Web Bench to check the actual performance.

Hi,TB0ne - Lighttpd is mostly used for file uploading, I've checked the header info that generated by some famous file uploading sites.
I just found that nginx supports Content-Range, so it should support transfer resume.

anyway I should have the service up for testing, thanks, reptiler!