Projects

Apache HTTP Server

claimed by Apache Software Foundation

The Apache HTTP Server Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, feature-rich, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. The project is jointly managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using ... [More] the Internet and the Web to communicate, plan, and develop the server and its related documentation. This project is part of the Apache Software Foundation. In addition, hundreds of users have contributed ideas, code, and documentation to the project. [Less]

NGINX

NGINX [Engine-X] is an HTTP(S) server, HTTP(S) reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. It has been running on many heavily loaded sites, including Facebook, Zappos, Groupon, LivingSocial, Hulu, TechCrunch, Dropbox, Tumblr and WordPress.

lighttpd

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility--all of these describe LightTPD which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load ... [More] , and advanced feature set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) LightTPD is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. [Less]

Cherokee

Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, uWSGI, SSI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding, Load Balancing, Apache compatible log files, Data Base ... [More] Balancing, Reverse HTTP Proxy, Traffic Shaper, Video Streaming, Content Cache and much more. Cherokee-Admin, a user friendly interface, provides a no-hassle configuration of the server. Check out the benchmarks and documentation to learn more, join our active Community and give it a try to squeeze your hardware to the fullest! [Less]

GNU MyServer

MyServer is a powerful and easy to configure web server. Its multi-threaded architecture makes it extremely scalable and usable in large scale sites as well as in small networks, it has a lot of built-in features. Share your files in minutes!

NaviServer

Naviserver is a high performance programmable web server written in C and Tcl. It can be easily extended in either language to create interesting web sites and services

Roxen

A webserver with exceptional support to run native applications in RXML. The webserver is implemented in Pike.

tclhttpd

TclHttpd is a Web server implemented in pure Tcl. It works out of the box as a Web server, but is really designed to be a Tcl application server. It supports HTML+Tcl templates, and is extensible in a variety of ways.

Snap: A Haskell Web Framework

Snap is a simple web development framework for unix systems, written in the Haskell programming language. Snap aims to be the de facto web toolkit for Haskell, on the basis of: - High performance - High design standards - Simplicity and ease of use, even for Haskell beginners - Excellent ... [More] documentation - Robustness and high test coverage Snap runs on *nix platforms; it has been tested on Linux and Mac OSX Snow Leopard. Windows support was added more recently, but it not as well-tested. [Less]

Caudium

Caudium is the name of a GPL-ed (free for commercial and personal use) web server written in Pike and in C. It is originally based on the Roxen Challenger 1.3 code base. It is an attractive alternative to servers like Apache, Netscape® and Zeus® due to its strength in dynamic page and data ... [More] generation, modularity and more. The Caudium Project runs also an IRC network, has created a GPL webmail called CAMAS and has an ever-growing community of developers and users worldwide. [Less]