To follow up on bart's suggestion -- go check out the IRC channel for the modules competing for your attention.

I was interested in checking out lightweight web servers recently, and I found the lighttpd channel occupied by over a hundred users, while Cherokee had just half a dozen users. Having said that, the one user I chatted with in the Cherokee channel was friendly and quite knowledgeable.

That probably shouldn't be a deciding factor, but it's good to know, in case you need somewhere to go for support.