What better for Filesharing DL servers (Nginx,Lighthttp,Apache?)

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Hey guys, Im going to run new filesharing website in a few days.
I have 2 servers for now:
server for Main: for the website+mysql db and another server (DL Server) for Storing files downloading/uploading.

In the Main server im going to Install Apache, But in DL Server i dont know what to Install.
What you guys suggest me? Apache,Nginx,Lighthttp.

Thanks!
 
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i would prefere nginx.
(even on the main-server)

this is just, because nginx is way faster than apache (even if you then can't use a clickybunty-Management-Tool).
Nginx is (if you ask me) faster, more flexible, more stable and easier to configure manually.
 
My main site (apache + Drupal 7) is configured with the following, moving from local to external:

  • MySQL Database optimization: skip-external-locking + skip-networking + skip-name-resolve
  • Site logos & images are compressed with OptiPNG
  • CSS/JS Aggregation & Compression: Google's mod_pagespeed + Lots of manual modifications
  • Caching: Nginx + Varnish + Memcached + APC + Google's mod_pagespeed
  • CDN: Cloudflare Pro - Full Performance Optimization


I run it on a Dedi with 2x Xeon CPUs + 24GB of RAM and a Gigabit internet connection (I don't buy from shitty hosts who advertise "Gigabit NIC", this is a real Gigabit internet connection).
 
I run it on a Dedi with 2x Xeon CPUs + 24GB of RAM and a Gigabit internet connection (I don't buy from shitty hosts who advertise "Gigabit NIC", this is a real Gigabit internet connection).
What hosts would you recommend? If possible, not very strict about DMCA ;)
 
I run it on a Dedi with 2x Xeon CPUs + 24GB of RAM and a Gigabit internet connection (I don't buy from shitty hosts who advertise "Gigabit NIC", this is a real Gigabit internet connection).
What hosts would you recommend? If possible, not very strict about DMCA ;)

Hosting companies operating out of the Netherlands in addition to Baltic/Eastern European countries are lenient towards DMCA. Very few will blatantly allow you to ignore all DMCAs but will work with you in case you start to receive them; in comparison with data centers in other areas of the world this isn't that bad because I know some data centers have a zero tolerance policy of cancelling/suspending services after receiving as few as three DMCA Takedown Requests.

But realistically, while DMCA is an American Law, most countries in the word have a copyright pact known as the Berne Convention. The very few countries that aren't part of this pact are third world countries in worthless places like South Asia and the Middle East, certainly not a place where high speed internet trunks would be readily available to operate a data center for hosting servers...
 
DMCA is just an American law. Any country outside the American Jurisdiction can live happily ever after not following it. EUCD is something like DMCA for the European countries and similarly like DMCA, many European Countries abide by the EUCD, some just ignore everything. No country in this world can actually ignore everything, if it comes from the official court of the country, you are to go down.

You need to be a real badass to get things working.. even badder part, this is not easy and near to impossible.
 
DMCA is just an American law. Any country outside the American Jurisdiction can live happily ever after not following it. EUCD is something like DMCA for the European countries and similarly like DMCA, many European Countries abide by the EUCD, some just ignore everything. No country in this world can actually ignore everything, if it comes from the official court of the country, you are to go down.

You need to be a real badass to get things working.. even badder part, this is not easy and near to impossible.

You're missing the Berne Convention which I've seen used in conjunction with DMCA for international takedown requests. Any country that has internet fast enough to host a file hosting service is a member of the Berne Convention so its pretty hard to dodge that one.
 
Nginx is good at loading static pages.
Litespeed is good at loading dynamic pages.
Apache has the largest community.
So I think Nginx is better for a file hosting as we use it for a long time now .
 
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