Project Summary
Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: 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, Content Cache and much more.
Cherokee-Admin, a user friendly interface, provides a no-hassle configuration of the server. Check out the benchmarks and documentation to learn more, join our active Community and give it a try to squeeze your hardware to the fullest!
In a Nutshell, Cherokee...
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took an estimated 36 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in April, 2006
ending with its most recent commit almost 3 years ago
GNU General Public License v2.0 or later
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Did You Know...
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nearly 1 in 3 companies have no process for identifying, tracking, or remediating known open source vulnerabilities
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