Which is better Nginx or Lighttpd

[Cabexas]

Hi,
Which is better between Nginx and Lighttpd on the basis of small VPS. What are the features of both. I am just going to built up a server and quiet confused between this two. I have a Windows server which a group of computers attached to it. So here the thing matter is the performance and ease of use. There must be much simplifier option. Please post some suggestions on the same. Thanks in advance.

[Spyrus]

I will list you some very basic features of nginx. I recommend nginx for its vast usage and features. It depends on your requirement here. Just go through the features and service provided by it. Nginx has a ability of provide 500 million requests every day. It comes 5th in the list of creating web servers. The basic features are good handling of static files, index files and auto-indexing, better load balancing, caching with reverse proxy, support for SSL, ault tolerance, FLV, mp4 streaming, etc.

[Snake08]

Lighttpd is usually used to create a much safer, fast and a standards-complian web server. This servers can works out much faster in critical environments also. It offers you Load-balancing, chroot support, Conditional rewrites , SSL and TLS support, Authentication against an LDAP server, RRDtool statistics, Flexible virtual hosting, Cache Meta Language, etc. It offers you more features as compare to Nginx.

[Zachary]

I will list you some pros and cons of both the web server builder. This will help you to understand more easily about the difference. First if we talk about Lighttpd then it is light weight, it is fast, there are many modules, you have also mod_magnet and there is a community support also. But on the other hand it is not stable, there is not support for mod_rewrite and memory leak issue. Now to Nginx. It is also lite, fast and stable. It is have a better Rewrite Module. The things which lacks is not community support and also there is no support for CGI.