I have upgraded lighttpd 1.4 to latest 1.5 version.

lighttpd-1.5.0 - a light and fast webserver
Build-Date: Apr 6 2008 17:06:07

After the upgrade, server load is 50% less now.

[root@server24 lighttpd]# uptime
17:31:16 up 3 days, 15:49, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.32, 0.58
[root@server24 lighttpd]#

Server load was high most of the time. I have not [...]

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Today i was reading a lot on how to web server scalability, mostly due to my lighttpd web server is above load level 1 most of the time.
I found an interesting video that talks about youtube server setup and scalability issue they faced. Youtube use lighttpd for serving video and images. Apache with fastcgi as [...]

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I have write about bandwidth usage of new server 2 days back. Today, bandwidth usage reached 50 Mbps average. But the problem is server load is at 1 all the time.

I hope the server will be able to handle file serving of at least 100 Mbps. That too seems low considering the server reached 50 [...]

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