Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have a new server for only images.
what is the recommended web server to serve only static content
(I have only images) ? My hardware is: CPU: intel xeon X3460
RAM: 16G  OS is CentOS5  share|improve this question  3 Answers
3  up vote 6 down vote accepted  nginx and lighttpd are often
used for this purpose although you could technically use any web
server.  In general, the web server you decide to use should be
as lightweight as possible and support sendfile(2) and the more
advanced event handling you OS provides (e. g. epoll on Linux,
kqueue on FreeBSD, etc.).  share|improve this answer  nginx may
be the best choice, as it looks like it does the best job
serving static content, very light weight, extremely low mem
footprint..!  share|improve this answer  ngnix for sure
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