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]

Rack

Rack provides a common API for connecting web frameworks, web servers and layers of software inbetween. Official repos: http://github.com/rack/rack

Ambition MVC Framework

Ambition is a next-generation MVC web application framework, empowering developers to create beautiful and expressive applications in minimal time, and scale them to incredible heights. Written in and targeted at the Vala programming language, find out how to get all the benefits of a static-typed language without the pain or verbosity.

psihttpd

psihttpd, or ψhttpd, is a very compact yet full-featured HTTP/HTTPS server written in highly portable C with optional isolated basic FTP functionality (for managing web content, etc.). It provides all the features a modern web server should provide, and no features that it shouldn't. ψhttpd ... [More] only speaks HTTP version 1.1, the current version of HTTP since early 1996, but does not refuse clients that use HTTP 1.0 for backwards compatibility reasons. ψhttpd also has a very advanced Dynamic Page Execution Engine (DPXE) which allows for: CGI, FastCGI, and SCGI Embedded Lua support More protocols (i.e. WSGI) added at run-time through Lua [Less]