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  • Apache HTTP Server

  • Apache, is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web and in 2009 became the first web server to surpass the 100 million web site milestone. Apache was the first viable alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web server, and has since evolved to rival other Unix-based web servers in terms of functionality and performance. The majority of all web servers using Apache are Linux web servers.Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation. »

    tags: http-daemon http-server web-server
  • Caddy

  • Caddy is a web server like Apache, nginx, or lighttpd, but with different goals, features, and advantages.The purpose of Caddy is to streamline an authentic web development, deployment, and hosting workflow so that anyone can host their own web sites without requiring special technical knowledge.

    tags: Portable blogging content-management http-daemon http-proxy
  • Microsoft IIS

  • Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows® Server is a flexible, secure and easy-to-manage Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web application hosting, IIS’s scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.

    tags: http http-daemon php web-server
  • Varnish

  • Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art HTTP application accelerator. You can install it on your HTTP server and it makes your application more accessible.

    tags: caching http language-c load-balancing proxy
  • Serva 32/64

  • Serva is an Automated PXE Server Solution Accelerator based on an all-in-one portable multi-server engine including BINL(RIS/WDS), HTTP, FTP, TFTP, DHCP, proxyDHCP, DNS, SNTP and SYSLOG protocols.

    tags: binl dhcp dhcp-server dns-server ftp-servers
  • Hiawatha

  • Hiawatha, a secure and advanced webserver

    tags: http-daemon http-server web-server
  • gobetween

  • Modern & minimalistic proxy server for the Cloud era.

    tags: load-balancer load-balancing proxy proxy-server server-software
  • Cherokee

  • Cherokee is a flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS or OpenSSL), virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly features, PHP, custom error management, and much more.

    tags: http-daemon http-server web-server
  • WnMp

  • Windows+Nginx+MariaDB+PHP

    tags: Discontinued hiawatha lamp mariadb mysql
  • Træfik

  • Imagine that you have deployed a bunch of microservices on your infrastructure. You probably used a service registry (like etcd or consul) and/or an orchestrator (swarm, Mesos/Marathon) to manage all these services. If you want your users to access some of your microservices from the Internet, you will have to use a reverse proxy and configure it using virtual hosts or prefix paths:

    tags: docker high-availability http https kubernetes
  • Haproxy

  • HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing. Supporting tens of thousands of connections is clearly realistic with todays hardware. Its mode of operation makes its integration into existing architectures very easy and riskless, while still offering the possibility not to expose fragile web servers to the Net. »

    tags: high-availability load-balancer proxy
  • Abyss Webserver

  • Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems.

    tags: cgi http http-server https ssl