Wednesday, May 18, 2011

5 Realistic Alternatives to Apache and IIS

Many of these alternative web servers are free to use. Nearly all offer a lightweight, highly scalable server solution. Some even outperform both Apache and IIS in terms of overall speed. The 5 web servers we will be looking at as real alternatives to Apache and IIS are:

Nginx
LiteSpeed
Lighttpd
Hiawatha
Cherokee

Read more: Slodive