Simon Willison’s Weblog

15th February 2007 - Link Blog

Content delivery system design mistakes. Collection of tips for optimising Web server performance. Mentions lighttpd/nginx, Keep-Alive, expires headers, noatime and more.

Posted 15th February 2007 at 11 am

Recent articles

I vibe coded my dream macOS presentation app - 25th February 2026
Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns - 23rd February 2026
Adding TILs, releases, museums, tools and research to my blog - 20th February 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 15th February 2007.

http 100 lighttpd 5 nginx 39 performance 94

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe