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Lighttpd
A web server known to be fast, secure, standards-compliant, flexible,
and optimized for speed-critical environments. Compared to other Web
servers, it maintains a low memory footprint and a light CPU load.
Lighttpd is open source and its speed makes it suitable for servers
suffering from load problems, or for serving static media separately
from dynamic content.
Linux
Linux is an open source operating system within the Unix family. It was
designed to give pc users a free or very low-cost operating system
comparable to traditional and usually more expensive UNIX systems. Its
robustness and availability has made it popular in the open source
community and among commercial application developers.
Load Balancing
When a single server cannot handle the number of visitors to a site,
load balancing divides the work of one server to one or more additional
ones. By load balancing, more work can get done in the same amount of
time and allows faster processing.
