Which server to choose for Linux?

Question

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Recommend some server for Linux, for normal HTML pages (PHP is not needed).

Answer 1

If only static is needed, something simpler is possible, information about various unpopular web servers can be found, for example, here .
In Ubuntu, you can see what is available with the following command:
But in general I agree with other respondents, nginx is very good for statics, and if PHP support or something else is needed in the future, then support is very easy to add.

Answer 2

You can also take such things (depending on what is already worth it):
hg serve-- a built-in server in Mercurial, git seems to have it too

Answer 3

For HTML, I recommend nginx. FreeBSD

Answer 4

For simple HTML I use lighttpd.
That's why it is light, in order to simply perform the necessary actions: return HTML.

Answer 5

I use apache2 + nginx for tests. In terms of statics, nginx is better.