For a production system facing the public, lightttpd strikes me as inappropriate. Any of the “I don’t care how poorly it supports modern browsers, I just need

For a production system facing the public, lightttpd strikes me as inappropriate. Any of the “I don’t care how poorly it supports modern browsers, I just need something barebones that speaks http” usecases the person I was responding to seemed to be suggesting would typically be something like a local dev http server, or a barebones http server sitting behind a more robust proxy. Which brings us back to, for those usecases, nginx is probably overkill.