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Cherokee vs Lwan

A side-by-side look at Cherokee and Lwan. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Cherokee

Cherokee

Network & Admin

Cherokee is an open source, very fast, flexible and easy to configure web server. It supports the widespread technologies and protocols used nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, HTTP/1.1, SSL/TLS, AJP13, WebSocket, IPv6, and others. It also features high availability, load balancing, powerful configuration system, and simple administration tools.

open-sourcefastflexibleeasy-to-configurefastcgiscgiphphttp11ssltlsajp13websocketipv6high-availabilityload-balancingpowerful-configurationsimple-administration
Lwan

Lwan

Network & Admin

Lwan is a high-performance and lightweight web server. It is designed to handle thousands of concurrent connections with little memory footprint. Lwan achieves high performance through an event loop model and other optimizations.

web-serverhigh-performancelightweightevent-loopconcurrent-connections

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