+== Web servers
+
+Rails uses the built-in web server in Ruby called WEBrick by default, so you don't
+have to install or configure anything to play around.
+
+If you have lighttpd installed, though, it'll be used instead when running script/server.
+It's considerably faster than WEBrick and suited for production use, but requires additional
+installation and currently only works well on OS X/Unix (Windows users are encouraged
+to start with WEBrick). We recommend version 1.4.11 and higher. You can download it from
+http://www.lighttpd.net.
+
+If you want something that's halfway between WEBrick and lighttpd, we heartily recommend
+Mongrel. It's a Ruby-based web server with a C-component (so it requires compilation) that
+also works very well with Windows. See more at http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/.
+
+But of course its also possible to run Rails with the premiere open source web server Apache.
+To get decent performance, though, you'll need to install FastCGI. For Apache 1.3, you want
+to use mod_fastcgi. For Apache 2.0+, you want to use mod_fcgid.
+
+See http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/FastCGI for more information on FastCGI.
+