i’ve used thttpd/php (someone else linked above) to great success with a similar type of app (needed to scale to ~600+ transactions/sec) after trying in vain to make Apache perform as quickly. if I were to do it all over again I’d use Python’s asyncore or Twisted frameworks (lightweight HTTP server functionality with the expressiveness and interoperability of python/non-fugliness of C), paired with psyco (python optimizer) which would have probably cut development time by 80-90% with similar performance (and would have been *much* more maintainable.)
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