When moving the Xdebug website and my own website to a new server I had to pick a web server to serve the pages through PHP. Up to then I was still using Apache 1.3 with zero intentions to ever upgrade to any later version. I'd heard a lot about lighttpd and decided to give that a try—yes, that meant something that I didn't really know to well was going to run in a production environment. Unlike Apache, with lighttpd PHP doesn't run as a module, but instead you run it out of process with something called FastCGI.
