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Apache Web Server - Most popular web server on the Internet

Apache web server is most popular and widely used web servers. Its features could be extended using modules. mod_proxy is a proxy module, mod_ssl provides ssl support, mod_rewrite provides URL rewriting etc. Virtual hosting is supported. Multiple websites could be accessed from single web server.

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Twisted - Networking Engine in Python

Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python. Twisted makes it easy to implement custom network applications, both servers and clients. It also supports many common network protocols, including SMTP, POP3, IMAP, SSHv2, DNS and lot more. The twisted.web webserver is a scalable, small-footprint web server that's easy to configure. It's efficient enough to serve a high-traffic website.

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tengine - A distribution of Nginx with some advanced features

Tengine is a web server originated by Taobao, the largest e-commerce website in Asia. It is based on the Nginx HTTP server and has many advanced features. Tengine has proven to be very stable and efficient on some of the top 100 websites in the world, including taobao.com and tmall.com.

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crow - Crow is very fast and easy to use C++ micro web framework (inspired by Python Flask)

If you just want to use crow, copy amalgamate/crow_all.h and include it. Linking with tcmalloc/jemalloc is recommended for speed.

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blink - A high performance web framework and application server in PHP.

Blink is a micro web framework for building long-running and high performance services, the design heavily inspired by Yii2 and Laravel. Blink aims to provide the most expressive and elegant API and try to make the experience of web development as pleasant as possible. Besides, Blink is also an application server that can serve requests directly in PHP, without php-fpm or Apache's mod_php. we use the Swoole extension as the underlying networking library. This can easily make our PHP application 100% faster in just a blink.

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serve - Serve is a small Rack-based web server and rapid prototyping framework for Web applications (specifically Rails apps)

Serve is a small Rack-based web server that makes it easy to serve HTML, ERB, Haml, or a variety of template languages from any directory. Serve is meant to be a lightweight version of the Views part of the Rails MVC. This makes Serve an ideal framework for prototyping Rails applications or creating simple websites. Serve has full support for Rails-style partials and layouts.

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httplab - The interactive web server

An interactive web server. HTTPLabs let you inspect HTTP requests and forge responses.

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Nginx - HTTP and reverse proxy server

Nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. It supports accelerated reverse proxying with caching, simple load balancing and fault tolerance, SSL and TLS SNI support, Name-based and IP-based virtual servers and lot more.

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suave - Suave is a simple web development F# library providing a lightweight web server and a set of combinators to manipulate route flow and task composition

Suave is a simple web development F# library providing a lightweight web server and a set of combinators to manipulate route flow and task composition. Suave is inspired in the simplicity of Happstack and born out of the necessity of embedding web server capabilities in my own applications. Suave supports Websocket, HTTPS, multiple TCP/IP bindings, Basic Access Authentication, Keep-Alive. Suave also takes advantage of F# asynchronous workflows to perform non-blocking IO. In fact, Suave is written in a completely non-blocking fashion throughout.

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fapws3 - Fast Asynchronous Python Web Server (based on libev)

FAPWS (Fast Asynchronous Python Web Server) is a fully WSGI compliant web server for the Python environment with 2 main objectives: keep it small and asynchronous. That way it will not heat your HW resources and will assure to not fall into C10K troubles. It can handle as much as concurrent request as your kernel can handle, Gzip support for on the fly compression and lot more.

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Undertow - High performance non-blocking Webserver

Undertow is a flexible performant web server written in java, providing both blocking and non-blocking API’s based on NIO. Undertow has a composition based architecture that allows you to build a web server by combining small single purpose handlers. The gives you the flexibility to choose between a full Java EE servlet 3.1 container, or a low level non-blocking handler, to anything in between.

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Jetty - WebServer and Servlet Container

Jetty provides an HTTP server, HTTP client, and javax.servlet container. Jetty is used in a wide variety of projects and products. Jetty can be embedded in devices, tools, frameworks, application servers and clusters. Its features include Asynchronous HTTP Server, Web Sockets server, Application Server Integrations and lot more.

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Lighttpd - Webserver optimized for speed

Lighttpd powers several popular Web 2.0 sites like YouTube, wikipedia and meebo. Its high speed io-infrastructure allows them to scale several times better with the same hardware than with alternative web-servers. Its features include small memory footprint, FastCGI, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and lot more. Its event-driven architecture is optimized for a large number of parallel connections (keep-alive) which is important for high performance AJAX applications.

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Cherokee - Fastest Web Server

Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies like 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 Balancing, Reverse HTTP Proxy, Traffic Shaper, Video Streaming and much more.

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Tornado - Non-blocking Web Server powers FriendFeed

Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably fast. Because it is non-blocking and uses epoll, it can handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which means it is ideal for real-time web services. Tornado is one of Facebook's open source technologies.

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Caddy - Fast, cross-platform HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS

Caddy is a general-purpose HTTP/2 web server that serves HTTPS by default. Caddy is fast, easy to use, and makes you more productive.

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GoAccess - Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser

GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal on *nix systems or through your browser. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly. It supports nearly all web log formats (Apache, Nginx, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFront, etc)