Was working late-ish last night, trying to get some stuff working for the announcement we’re making next week. The good news: lighttpd seems fully capable of serving a million pages an hour on our hardware. The bad news: under load, lighttpd seems to crash quite reliably every 250-300 pages, even when serving perfectly static pages which in theory should be cached. I’m boggled that so many people appear to be using something that is so trivial to knock over, even though the performance is unarguably quite pleasing. I guess today I spend with apache2 + fastcgi, and see if that goes any better…