It would be really nice if somebody could write a breakdown of these webservers for the uninitiated like myself. I'd like to know when to use which tool.
I started with a single hunchentoot instance running on SBCL on Win32 and I still hack on it about 16 hours a day. I deploy on a 30-instance hunchentoot farm with 4 lighttpds sittin on front of them.
Hunchentoot could either be a single-instance, one thread per request simpleton, or, given its flexible and well thoughtout architecture, an httpd development framework. The requests per second could also vary; the stock configuration is about 80r/s, but I am squeezing well over 2kr/s out of it. I have been tweaking it for the last 7 months or so and it just keeps getting better.
