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Lwan vs mongrel2

A side-by-side look at Lwan and mongrel2. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

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.

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mongrel2

mongrel2

Development

Mongrel2 is an open-source web server written in C and designed for high performance and concurrency. It builds on ideas from Mongrel 1 and other servers, focusing on ease of configuration, stability, and modern features.

cweb-serverhigh-performanceconcurrency

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