… a dedicated domain for static content, which is served by lighttpd. Apache then hosts the dynamic. sent from: fav.or.it…

Isn’t Lighttpd better suited as a replacement for Apache rather than a front end to it ? To serve static content I recommend using thttpd, it is very fast, very stable and very light on resources.

use nginx for this. it is better then lighttpd now 2 million hosts use this server (month ago — 1 million…) http://nginx.net/ enjoy ( http://wiki.codemongers.com/Main )

Isn’t it better to use a cache/accelerator dedicated product like squid as a front-end instead of lighttpd?

… all we completely rely on amazon S3 for that and lighttpd just handle the dynamic pages to solve the ETAG, expiration…

… same thing with it : send all static content requests to lighttpd and all dynamic content to apache. If you have a…

This is interesting – we actually do the opposite – apache as reverse proxy + mod_security + static file handling in front of the lighttpd/fcgi.