alriyadh.com moved to lighttpd

Alriyadh.com website is now served by Lighttpd (aka Lighty).

I moved all static content from Apache to Lighty, Lighty “select” based design makes it ideal for I/O bound operation, i.e. disk and network operations. For this reason Lighty move all CPU bound operations to external process and communicate with them using FastCGI protocol.

This is what delayed my migration to Lighty, because I used to compile PHP with mod_php only and with FastCGI support, so I have to recompile PHP to enable it. Of course I spent few days testing, and I am still having some areas not covered completely.

Overall Lighty is a great software, and if you have highly loaded website, it is a must.