Great job Zed, thank you very much for your hard work. I'm waiting for the next installment of [ http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/lighttpd.html ] with memcached instructions to complete my setup. btw to deal with lighttpd load balancer issues i'm using balance: [ http://www.inlab.de/balance.html ] - lighttpd sending all request to ONE IP (can be 127.0.0.1), where balance is listenning and doing all requests spreading (load balancing and fail over).