Webserver Rpi

[Dkozak]

So my Raspberry pi server won't boot anymore after upgrading so I need to reflash everything.

Now the question: 

 

I was using Raspbian, is this still a good distro for a simple webserver?

And which service would you recommend? Apache | nginx | lighthttpd?

 

[josmad]

If by simple you mean easy to setup, then the answer is yes. The Raspbian repositories contain most, if not all of the software you are going to be using.

Apache is my personal goto, but unless your only goal is to serve static webpages you will need something more.

[omniomi]

Apache is my personal goto, but unless your only goal is to serve static webpages you will need something more.

 

Sorry... What?

 

There are three real choices on Linux: Apache, nginx, or Apache+nginx... Sure others like Lighttpd exist but lets be honest it's generally going to be Apache, nginx, or a combination of both. You do not need something more than Apache to host dynamic sites, Apache works just fine; However, if you're using php for example you do need to install php alongside Apache. 

 

As of Feb 2015 Apache has ~40% market share of web servers on the internet (50% if you look at only the 1,000,000 busiest sites,) IIS has ~28%, and nginx has ~15%. (Source: Netcraft) Apache is just fine.

[Master Disaster]

Just install LAMP and your good to go.

[josmad]

Sorry... What?

 

There are three real choices on Linux: Apache, nginx, or Apache+nginx... Sure others like Lighttpd exist but lets be honest it's generally going to be Apache, nginx, or a combination of both. You do not need something more than Apache to host dynamic sites, Apache works just fine; However, if you're using php for example you do need to install php alongside Apache. 

 

As of Feb 2015 Apache has ~40% market share of web servers on the internet (50% if you look at only the 1,000,000 busiest sites,) IIS has ~28%, and nginx has ~15%. (Source: Netcraft) Apache is just fine.

I am not sure I understand your definition of a "dynamic site" but apache will not be able to serve dynamic content on its own. You would need something to do the server-side page generation.

@Dkozak Which RPi version are we talking about?