I think lighttpd might be something like what you're looking for.
It's pretty lightweight, fast enough and php/ruby/perl works with it (through 
fastCGI).

http://www.lighttpd.net/

And of course it's in portage :)

Oscar


Thursday 04 August 2005 15.08 skrev Steve [Gentoo]:
> Having recently had hassle with dependencies for Apache2 for my
> configuration, I had a sudden thought that I don't really need most of
> the Apache features... and there are many http servers available in
> portage.
>
> I can classify my priorities as essential and desirable:
>
> Essential :
>     * Must be secure against remote attacks.
>     * Must support username-and-password based authentication.
>
> Desirable :
>     * Support to host multiple domains on a single public IP address
> (NAT'd to a single static IP address for my server)
>     * As lightweight as possible (traffic volume would be minuscule -
> server would be heavily loaded and low capacity.)
>
> Can anyone make suggestions as to good packages to investigate?
>
> Steve
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