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Project Summary
lighttpd (pronounced /lighty/) is a secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. lighttpd uses memory and CPU efficiently and has lower resource use than other popular web servers. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and much more) make lighttpd the perfect web server for all systems, small and large.
In a Nutshell, lighttpd...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 59 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in February, 2005
ending with its most recent commit 10 days ago
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Project Security
Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )
There are no reported vulnerabilities
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Many reported vulnerabilities
Few reported vulnerabilities
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