Some time ago I tried using Apache and it was such a headache I ultimately moved on to Symfony. We use Symfony with lighttpd and fastcgi with great results; we have survived the digg effect easily with that setup (16K visits over a few hours), so I vote lighttpd with fastcgi.
Some time ago I tried using Apache and it was such a headache I ultimately moved on to Symfony. We use Symfony with lighttpd and fastcgi with great results; we have survived the digg effect easily with that setup (16K visits over a few hours), so I vote lighttpd with fastcgi.