Comparison of lightweight web servers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Comparison of lightweight web servers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Comparison of lightweight web servers

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Lightweight web servers are web servers which have been designed to run with very small resource overhead because of hardware, environment, or simply for the challenge of it.^{[citation needed]}

Many of these servers have been created as a mental exercise to determine if a modern webserver could be written to run on limited resources such as those provided in a graphing calculator, a Commodore 64, or in 64 kB (64 KiB) total of memory^{[citation needed]}. Others have been written as commercial or open source endeavors to create webservers with low overhead for embedded systems (network router configuration pages) or low memory requirements.

Contents [hide] 1 Overview 2 Operating system support 3 See also 4 References

[edit]Overview

A list of notable lightweight web servers follows:

Server	Creator/Developer	Operating Systems	Development Language	Free software	Software license	Size (kB) of .tar file[1]	Last release version	Release date
Boa	Paul Phillips	Unix	C, Perl	Yes	GPL 1 or above[2]	870	0.94.14rc21[3]	2005-02-23
Cherokee	Álvaro López Ortega	Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, Solaris, BSD	C	Yes	GPL[4]	16440	1.0.18[5]	2011-01-19
G-Wan	TrustLeap.com	Linux, Windows	C	No	Freeware, Closed source	1280	2.9.16	2011-09-16[6]
Hiawatha	Hugo Leisink	Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Windows, Haiku os[7]	C	Yes	GPL 2[8]	1200	7.6	2011-08-21[9]
HTTP File Server	Massimo Melina (aka rejetto)	Windows	Delphi	Yes	GPL	600	2.2f	2009-02-17
IIS Express	Microsoft	Windows	?	No	Closed source	3985	7.5	2011-01-18
lighttpd	Jan Kneschke	Unix, Linux, Windows	C	Yes	BSD[10]	3520	1.4.28[11]	2010-08-22
Mongrel	Zed A. Shaw	Unix, Linux, Windows	Ruby	Yes	GPL 2 or Ruby License[12]	400	1.1.5	2008-05-22[13]
nginx	Igor Sysoev	Unix-like, Windows	C	Yes	BSD	3960	1.0.6[14]	2011-09-05
NicheStack HTTP Server	InterNiche Technologies	Any 16 or 32bit embedded	C	No	Closed source	?	3.1	?
Perlbal	Brad Fitzpatrick	Any OS with Perl	Perl	Yes	GPL / Artistic	590	1.73	2009-10-13
RomPager Basic	Allegro Software	Any 16 or 32bit embedded	ANSI-C	No	Closed source	717	5.3	2011-06-17
thttpd	Acme Labs	Unix	C	Yes	BSD	406.0[15]	2.25b	2003-12-29
Tntnet	Tommi Mäkitalo	Unix	C++	Yes	LGPL	?	?	?
UIP	Adam Dunkels	Embedded 8bit	C	?	?	?	?	?
Server	Creator/Developer	Operating Systems	Development Language	Open source	Software license	Size (kB) of .tar file[1]	Last release version	Release date

[edit]Operating system support

Server	Windows	Linux	Mac OS X	BSD	Solaris	QNX
Boa	?	Yes	?	?	?	?
Cherokee	Yes[16][17][18]	Yes	Yes[citation needed]	Yes[19][20][21]	Yes	?
G-Wan	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Hiawatha	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
HTTP File Server	Yes	No	No	No	?	?
IIS Express	Yes	No	No	No	No	?
lighttpd	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
Mongrel	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
nginx	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
NicheStack HTTP Server	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
Perlbal	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
RomPager Basic Web Server	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
thttpd	No	Yes	Yes[22]	Yes	Yes	?
Tntnet	No	Yes	?	?	?	?
UIP	?	Yes	?	?	?	?

[edit]See also