I always enjoy articles that reiterate how the simple stuff really is pretty simple. I like thttpd for that reason, its a really simple (and a bit more featureful) webserver than this one, but not by a lot. Easy to comprehend, easy to keep all the moving pieces in your head in one piece.

Folks building embedded stuff have been using this stuff to create their UIs for like forever it seems, and this kind of web server works pretty well in that capacity.

[1] http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/