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]

Dovecot

Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind.

Cyrus IMAP

The Cyrus IMAP server differs from other IMAP server implementations in that it is generally intended to be run on sealed servers, where normal users are not permitted to log in. The mailbox database is stored in parts of the filesystem that are private to the Cyrus IMAP system. All user access to ... [More] mail is through the IMAP, POP3, or KPOP protocols. The private mailbox database design gives the server large advantages in efficiency, scalability, and administratability. Multiple concurrent read/write connections to the same mailbox are permitted. The server supports access control lists on mailboxes and storage quotas on mailbox hierarchies. [Less]

wzdftpd

wzdftpd is a portable, modular, small and efficient ftp server. It is designed to be run as root or non-root, It supports IPv6, SSL, and is multithreaded. Server is fully configurable online using SITE commands, and implements the latest RFC extensions to the FTP protocol. Features are: ... [More] flexible user management, ACLs, virtual users/groups, security, speed, bandwidth limitation, per command authorization, virtual directories, dynamic ip changes auto-detection, etc. It includes several authentication backends, is easily scriptable and provides a powerful event-driven system to extend the server. [Less]

Archiveopteryx

Archiveopteryx is a mail server system optimised for long-term storage and heavy access. It comprises a set of server programs that provide access to mail stored in a relational database (PostgreSQL). It runs on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Mac OS X.

Mailster

Mailster is a project aimed at testing software mail capabilities. It provides a mail server container to test emails sent by your apps without rewriting your application code.

A high-performance security proxy

sec-wall is a feature packed high-performance security proxy supporting SSL/TLS, WSSE, HTTP Auth Basic/Digest, extensible authentication schemes based on custom HTTP headers and XPath expressions, powerful URL matching/rewriting and an optional headers enrichment. It's a security wall you ... [More] can conveniently fence the otherwise defenseless backend servers with. Visit the project's site at http://sec-wall.gefira.pl/ [Less]

akpop3d

akpop3d is a POP3 daemon aimed to be small and secure. Despite its small size, it offers a lot of f eatures. It is completely RFC 1939 compliant.