Thttpd
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThttpd is a really small and very fast multiplexing webserver.
Why you want it
thttpd doesn't do PHP or anything even remotely fancy. It just servers static objects and it does a very good job of doing so without using a whole lot of resources.
If you need to offload your normal webserver for serving static parts of pages such as images, etc, then thttpd is much likely for you.