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Web Servers
Introduction & Overview
Table of Content:
Introduction to Products
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_server
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_server_software
- news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/
news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/
Who's Using What?
Netcraft also has an interesting service - to find out what OS, web server, a specific domain is using. 'What's that site running?'
As example, http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=comgt.com.
More also Statistics
Embedded, Lightweight
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_HTTP_server
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_lightweight_web_servers
| Server1 | License | Maintained (latest release) |
Environment | More |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boa | GPL - watch out | No (2005-02-23) | (don't care) | |
| Cherokee | GPL - watch out | Yes? (2011-01-19) | (don't care) | |
| Hiawatha | GPL - watch out | Yes (2011-11-09) | (don't care) | |
| lighttpd | Revised BSD - Good | Yes (2011-07-03) | *NIX, C | below |
| mongoose2 | MIT | Yes | *NIX~, C | below |
| NanoHTTPD2 | Modified BSD - Good | Yes (2011-08-04) | Java | below |
| nginx | BSD - Good | Yes (2011-09-05) | *NIX, C | below |
| thttpd | BSD - Good | No (2003-12-29) | *NIX, C | below |
| Tntnet | LGPL - Good | Yes (2011-10-03) | *NIX, C++ | below |
1 Wikipedia article (but only added URLs for servers we're interested in - more suitable licenses)
2 No Wikipedia article found (2011-11-11)
- License:
- GPL - watch out for linking and the potential forced release of all your sources...
- (Not a problem w/ BSD or Lesser GPL - LGPL)
- GPL - watch out for linking and the potential forced release of all your sources...
- Maintained: notes per 2011-11-11
More:
- lighttpd
- Mongoose
- NanoHTTPD2
- nginx
- thttpd
- Tntnet