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]

Apache Tomcat

claimed by Apache Software Foundation

Apache Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.

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.

Jetty - Java HTTP Servlet Server

claimed by Eclipse Foundation

Jetty is an Open Source HTTP Servlet Server written in Java. It is a full featured HTTP/1.1 server and a Servlet container. It is designed to be small, fast, embeddable and extensible. It supports HTTP/1.1, websockets, servlets , and JSP.

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]

Mongrel

A small fast HTTP server written in (mostly) Ruby that can be used to host web frameworks directly with HTTP rather than FastCGI or SCGI.

HyperSQL Database Engine

hsqldb is a relational database engine written in Java with a JDBC driver that supports a subset of ANSI SQL:1999. It offers a small, fast database engine. Embedded and server modes are available. It includes tools such as a minimal Web server, in-memory query and management tools (which can be run ... [More] as applets or servlets, too), a test framework, PHP compatibility, Eclipse and NetBeans IDE compatibility, and a number of demonstration examples. [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]

Thin

Thin is a Ruby web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history: * the Mongrel parser, the root of Mongrel speed and security * Event Machine, a network I/O library with extremely high scalability, performance and stability * Rack, a minimal interface between webservers and Ruby frameworks

Hunchentoot

Hunchentoot is a web server written in Common Lisp and at the same time a toolkit for building dynamic websites. As a stand-alone web server, Hunchentoot is capable of HTTP/1.1 chunking (both directions), persistent connections (keep-alive), and SSL, but it can also sit behind the popular Apache ... [More] using Marc Battyani's mod_lisp. Hunchentoot provides facilities like automatic session handling (with and without cookies), logging (to Apache's log files or to a file in the file system), customizable error handling, and easy access to GET and POST parameters sent by the client. It does not include functionality to programmatically generate HTML output. For this task you can use any library you like, e.g. (shameless self-plug) CL-WHO or HTML-TEMPLATE. [Less]