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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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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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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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thttpd - tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server

thttpd is a simple, small, portable, fast, and secure HTTP server. It also has one extremely useful feature (URL-traffic-based throttling) that no other server currently has. Plus, it supports IPv6 out of the box, no patching required.

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gatling - a high performance web server for Linux

gatling is a high performance web server for Linux. It is small, fast, Scalable. It has IPv6 support, Connection Alive, HTTP, FTP and SMB support.

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Ghost Perl Webserver Strong AI

Ghost Perl Webserver Strong AI thinks in English or Russian by spreading activation among concepts.

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bjoern - Fast And Ultra-Lightweight HTTP/1.1 WSGI Server

A screamingly fast, ultra-lightweight WSGI server for CPython, written in C using Marc Lehmann's high performance libev event loop and Ryan Dahl's http-parser. It is single threaded and it has less memory foot print.

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Monkey HTTP Daemon - Web Server for Linux

Monkey HTTP Daemon, is a very Small, Fast and Lightweight open source Web Server for GNU/Linux. It has been designed to be very scalable with low memory and CPU consumption, the perfect solution for embedded and high production environments. It is asynchronous and event driven. It supports virtual hosts, SSL, Logs etc.

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