http://serverfault.com/questions/330557/is-cherokee-probably-the-best-static-content-server-for-beginner-sysadmins http://serverfault.com/questions/330557/is-ch

http://serverfault.com/questions/330557/is-cherokee-probably-the-best-static-content-server-for-beginner-sysadmins http://serverfault.com/questions/330557/is-cherokee-probably... So.. my answer is: pick one and learn it. It doesn't matter which you pick, just pick one. In the time you've spent posting this question to various places, you could have been up and running with either one of them. Hell, you can be up and running with Nginx in under a minute with any sort of modern Linux distribution.