lighttpd came out in the mid 2000's with a better polling model than Apache, that was my point. It was using epoll back then which Apache did not. Even Youtube

lighttpd came out in the mid 2000's with a better polling model than Apache, that was my point. It was using epoll back then which Apache did not. Even Youtube used Lighttpd at some point. Both are http servers, and lighttpd came out before Nginx, they both tried to solve the c10k problem.