darkhttpd : you'll love static
Published 31 January 2019
Tags: #foss, #good-stuff
darkhttpd - wiki is my favorite web server. It does one thing and it does it good: serve static files correctly.
The overall best feature I've found in darkhttpd is that it is configured via command line arguments, so you can wrap the configuration of each one of your web servers into it's runit/OpenRC service!
Running a static webserver will help you reduce overhead and lets you reduce the resource usage of your services.
You can easily install it by running:
In Void Linux:
In Alpine Linux: