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Nginx
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Free and open source
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Fast and built for scalability
Nginx is event-driven, asynchronous, non-blocking and single threaded (one master process + worker processes). This allows nginx to be manage resources more efficiently compared to thread-based models (like Apache).
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Lightweight
Nginx offers a more basic set of functions out of the box compared most web servers. Extra functionality can be added via modules.
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Highly efficient memory use
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Highly efficient CPU use
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Advanced load balancing and caching
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Event Based Request Handling
Does not fork/thread per request.
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Easily configurable
Configuration files are concise and simple.
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Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD
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Lighttpd
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Simple setup for static content
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Fast and built for scalability
Lighttpd is event-driven, asynchronous, non-blocking and single threaded. This allows lighttpd to be manage resources more efficiently compared to thread-based models (like Apache).
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Highly efficient memory use
With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load.
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Free and open source
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Lightweight
Lighttpd offers a more basic set of functions out of the box compared most web servers. Extra functionality can be added via modules.
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Quite easy to setup and configure
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Apache
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Free and open source
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Arcane configuration format
Configuration is as good as the manuals go. As soon as you have to configure it by yourself, it becomes a lot more difficult due to a rather obtuse system of configuration with long and confusing variable names, which has become infamous among web developers.
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Powerful
Apache has a lot of features and functionality.
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Process Based Request Handling
Each request opens a new process/fork to handle just that request (ver memory inefficient)
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Excellent OS support
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Extremely inneficient
Opens a new thread for each request. In practice this means that unless you use a proxy (nginx) you can only have a certain number of people on your site at a time, and is extremely inefficient on the server side.
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Easy solutions for complex configurations
Due to it's maturity, Apache has a lot of features to cover a wide range of situations.
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Great documentation
Apache has thorough documentation.
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OpenLiteSpeed
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GUI
OpenLiteSpeed has a GUI for easier setup.
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Multiple steps
Some things require multiple steps, like creating a listener and a virtual host or a reverse proxy.
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Open Source
OpenLiteSpeed is the open source version of the LiteSpeed web server.
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Linux, Docker
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Traefik
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Auto-discovery
You just add labels to your Docker, Swarm or K8s containers and they get proxied automagically, If you set up everything correctly.
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Http/Https only
E.g. doesn't allow you to route IMAP/SMTP traffic.
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Easy to set up
Add your docker network and labels to your services and get it running fast.
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Linux
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MIT
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IIS
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PHP spport
PHP applications can be run using IIS. Simple to install and configure.
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1 website limit per server (also pre-7.0 client os limit)
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.NET and ASPX script support
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10 simultaneous connection limit on versions before 7.0 on client operating systems
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Supported by Microsoft
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Only runs on Windows
This Microsoft-proprietary web server software, can only run in the Windows operating systems for full support of it and all of its features. It is not capable of being run in a non-Windows environment without sacrificing some functionality and of course the support.
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Authentication (Anonymous, Basic, Digest, Integrated Windows Auth, UNC, .NET Passport (<6), Certificate)
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Proprietary
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IPv6 support (IIS 6+)
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Multiple websites can be run on 1 server
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HTTP/2, HTTP/2, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP and NNTP support
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Runs on literal NT 3.51
So you can boot up that ancient work computer and get IIS (Free addon at the time) for that computer
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Very fast
If you want a quick web server, use this, because i mean like, on my laptop, the first request is 1 or 2 seconds, after that, it becomes a split second!
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In-depth diagnostic tools
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