Load balancing Lighttpd

Updated on April 1, 2025
Published on March 8, 2023

About lighttpd

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility – all of these describe lighttpd (pron. lighty) which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, SCGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) lighttpd is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. And best of all it’s Open Source licensed under the revised BSD license.

Key benefits of load balancing

Loadbalancer.org specializes in providing application delivery controllers (ADC). Load balancing lighttpd ensures:

  • optimized performance
  • resilience (high availability)
  • scalability