What's the best webserver software for video?

Question

Hi,

we have a collection of FLV files, to be displayed by FlowPlayer flash-app in a website. The scripts and handling of data are done with Apache/MySQL/PHP. As the video files are static files they should be served by a more static oriented webserver like lighttpd or nginx, like it's done with photos.

What's the best webserver for serving video? A static files oriented webserver should be good?

thanks in advance regards, rui

Answer 1

According to this benchmark, nginx is a little bit better than lighttpd for serving bigger static contents, so nginx would be a good choice for static flv video contents.

Answer 2

Have you looked at FF Server? HERE IS THE LINK

We used it several time for our video serving needs and it has a nice interface. Several high volume video generating sites use this.

Answer 3

lighttpd - YouTube uses it, as does ImageShack.