Nginx is good at loading static pages.
Litespeed is good at loading dynamic pages.
Apache has the largest community.
Cherokee is best at loading static and dynamic pages, however, its project has been abandoned. quite outdated. - https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/
Which is the best and why?
Begin war/argument/discussion.
Scores so far
Cherokee: 2
Nginx: 11
Apache: 2
Litespeed: 1
Lighttpd: 3
Microsoft IIS: 1