Not everyone chooses to go the FCGI way of deploying their web applications. Some people, like I, prefer deploying applications under Catalyst's httpd or Rails' Mongrel. Unfortunately, Lighttpd at this time (version 1.4.13) has a inept mod_proxy module. It does not load balance correctly and nor does it recover from a downed proxy node, requiring a full restart. Obviously this is unacceptable when