I was looking for a small web server for service static files bundled in a container image. Most people just use nginx because it fast and well maintained. But the base image is 68.6 MB! Even going to the alpine-slim instead of latest only gets us down to 5.27 MB. You can also use BusyBox to serve HTTP or even better compile your own BusyBox and strip everythong down as show in this blog. That gets use down to 154 KB. This is already a huge improvement but we can go down to double digits using darkhttpd, 62.8 KB. Bundling one image in your static site would already negate all the improvements of not using nginx but it is still cool to see that we still can get things done with something that would fit on a floppy disk.