Jan has released “lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server
which has been optimized for high-performance environments”. The advanced features include:

• load-balanced FastCGI (one webserver distibutes request to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI)
• custom errorpages (for Response-Code 400-599)
• virtual hosts
• directory listings
• streaming CGI and FastCGI
• URL-Rewritung
• HTTP-Redirects
• output-compression with transparent caching

Find more information in English in the README or in German at the project website.