Basically I'm looking for greatest performance, nothing fancy...
I'm looking to deliver a potentially massive amount of static (cached) files from a web server. Reliability is obviously important but performance is impetus.
I say think about..cause I personally haven't use it. Friend of mine is working on government projects , leading dev when elections are made - representing elections result online...Election is one day...and by the end of day...millions of people(media, foreign media etc etc) accessing the web site to see pre-results etc. So the results they show they generate with script and update like every 30min - 1hour...this way static content is serverd only and can handle tons of requests.... I know they didn't use apache ...but he's not online now..cannot ask what exactly was it.