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Apache HTTP Server

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Claimed by Apache Software Foundation Analyzed about 1 month ago

The Apache HTTP Server Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, feature-rich, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. The project is jointly managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using ... [More] the Internet and the Web to communicate, plan, and develop the server and its related documentation. This project is part of the Apache Software Foundation. In addition, hundreds of users have contributed ideas, code, and documentation to the project. [Less]

1.88M lines of code

27 current contributors

about 2 months since last commit

9,460 users on Open Hub

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4.53188
   
8 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: Apache-2.0
Tags apache authentication authorization caching cgi dav dynamic_content fastcgi ftp ftpd ftpserver gateway 21 more...

Apache Tomcat

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Claimed by Apache Software Foundation Analyzed 20 days ago

The Apache Tomcat software is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.

1.13M lines of code

13 current contributors

20 days since last commit

1,663 users on Open Hub

Very High Activity
4.23125
   
4 Reviews
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Mostly written in Java
Licenses: Apache-2.0
Tags apache http http_server java jsp servlet web web_services

nginx

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Claimed by NGINX, Inc. Analyzed 18 days ago

NGINX [Engine-X] is an HTTP(S) server, HTTP(S) reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. It has been running on many heavily loaded sites, including Facebook, Zappos, Groupon, LivingSocial, Hulu, TechCrunch, Dropbox, Tumblr and WordPress.

190K lines of code

22 current contributors

18 days since last commit

849 users on Open Hub

High Activity
4.6568
   
3 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: BSD-2-Clause
Tags accelerator caching fastcgi highload high_performance http httpd https http_server internet intranet load_balancer 12 more...

Jetty: Java based HTTP, Servlet, SPDY, WebSocket Server

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Claimed by Eclipse Foundation Analyzed 25 days ago

Jetty is an Open Source HTTP Servlet Server written in Java. It is a full featured HTTP/1.1 server and a Servlet container. It is designed to be small, fast, embeddable and extensible. It supports HTTP/1.1, servlets 2.3, and JSP 1.2.

611K lines of code

43 current contributors

25 days since last commit

523 users on Open Hub

Very High Activity
4.61607
   
2 Reviews
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Mostly written in Java
Licenses: EPL-1.0
Tags ajax application_server dynamic_content embedded http http_server j2ee java jsp servlet servlet_container usability 2 more...

lighttpd

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  Analyzed 6 months ago

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility--all of these describe LightTPD which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load ... [More] , and advanced feature set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) LightTPD is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. [Less]

100K lines of code

8 current contributors

8 months since last commit

469 users on Open Hub

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4.50625
   
3 Reviews
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Tags fastcgi high_performance http httpd http_server php scgi server web

Mongrel

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  Analyzed 2 months ago

A small fast HTTP server written in (mostly) Ruby that can be used to host web frameworks directly with HTTP rather than FastCGI or SCGI.

16.2K lines of code

0 current contributors

over 8 years since last commit

252 users on Open Hub

Activity Not Available
4.07273
   
1 Review
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Mostly written in Ruby
Licenses: Ruby
Tags application_server http http_server rails ruby rubygem server web

HyperSQL Database Engine

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  Analyzed 3 months ago

hsqldb is a relational database engine written in Java with a JDBC driver that supports a subset of ANSI SQL:1999. It offers a small, fast database engine. Embedded and server modes are available. It includes tools such as a minimal Web server, in-memory query and management tools (which can be run ... [More] as applets or servlets, too), a test framework, PHP compatibility, Eclipse and NetBeans IDE compatibility, and a number of demonstration examples. [Less]

584K lines of code

3 current contributors

5 months since last commit

221 users on Open Hub

Activity Not Available
4.04651
   
2 Reviews
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Mostly written in Java
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Tags database database_server dbms development embedded engine front-ends gis hsql hsqldb http_server java 23 more...

Cherokee

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  Analyzed 30 days ago

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 ... [More] 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! [Less]

138K lines of code

3 current contributors

5 months since last commit

43 users on Open Hub

Very Low Activity
4.54545
   
1 Review
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Mostly written in C
Licenses: GPL-2.0+
Tags fastcgi high_performance http httpd https http_server php python rails ruby scgi server 2 more...

Thin

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  Analyzed 30 days ago

Thin is a Ruby web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history: * the Mongrel parser, the root of Mongrel speed and security * Event Machine, a network I/O library with extremely high scalability, performance and stability * Rack, a minimal interface between webservers and Ruby frameworks

13.2K lines of code

3 current contributors

5 months since last commit

40 users on Open Hub

Very Low Activity
4.25
   
0 Reviews
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Mostly written in JavaScript
Licenses: Ruby
Tags http http_server performance rack ruby rubygem server web

Hunchentoot

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  Analyzed 30 days ago

Hunchentoot is a web server written in Common Lisp and at the same time a toolkit for building dynamic websites. As a stand-alone web server, Hunchentoot is capable of HTTP/1.1 chunking (both directions), persistent connections (keep-alive), and SSL, but it can also sit behind the popular Apache ... [More] using Marc Battyani's mod_lisp. Hunchentoot provides facilities like automatic session handling (with and without cookies), logging (to Apache's log files or to a file in the file system), customizable error handling, and easy access to GET and POST parameters sent by the client. It does not include functionality to programmatically generate HTML output. For this task you can use any library you like, e.g. (shameless self-plug) CL-WHO or HTML-TEMPLATE. [Less]

13.7K lines of code

7 current contributors

5 months since last commit

29 users on Open Hub

Low Activity
4.33333
   
1 Review
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Mostly written in Lisp
Licenses: BSD-2-Clause
Tags http http_server lisp server web