It is a good idea to compress your CSS files. Doing so will strip the whitespace (and strip comments if you wish, you can always keep a backup on our hard drive) and reduce the overall file size. There are many tools to do this for you, one of which is CSS Compressor.

There is no doubt about the popularity of Apache among all available webservers, but there is one webserver with excellent performance which started to attract very important actor in the market : Lighttpd.

Lighttpd key features are security, speed, compliance, and flexibility. It have been optimized for high performance environments, with small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more).
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Lighttpd the alternative webserver