From my own personal experience, I would recommened nginx. If you are uncomfortable with it or need a panel for most of your work, I would recommend using apache + cpanel + nginx (nginxcp) for your site.

Right now, our 8GB Ram and Quad core servers handles upto 10,000 connections with just around 20-25% load
ddlanime Reviewed by ddlanime on . which lighweight server to use? I don't have many visitors, like 15 a day. But I use PHP scripts and wordpress. I want to save as much RAM as I can, so which server is the best for that? I read here http://serversreview.net/this-is-what-happened-between-apache-nginx-and-litespeed-free-edition that litespeed uses less memory than nginx, but i don't know about litespeed vs. lighttpd. Rating: 5