Suggest a lightning fast, feature-light, secure Linux web server to serve static content [closed]

The list of must-have requirements:

be able to serve static HTML pages and files (images, compressed archives, ASCII text files etc) over HTTP.
be Resource conservative. It uses what's needed to send data over the network in form of memory and CPU, and not much more.
have a small install footprint.
use only as much network bandwith as is necessary.
be mature.
be easy to configure.
be compiled into native code. No Python or Java etc.

What I don't need:

Complex configuration options. If needed later on, I'll switch to Apache httpd.
Support for running CGI, Perl, PHP, Java, Server Side Includes or other "extras".

Any suggestions please?

Solution 1:

nginx Learn more at the nginx wiki site.

It's hot, fast, small. A few % on the Netcraft survey.

Lighttpd comes to mind.

According to the Lighttpd tutorial docs, configuring a static server takes about 5 minutes:

There are lots but I personally like Cherokee. It's relatively new but also very simple to configure with a built-in web-gui.