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While I like nginx over apache because I've been burned too many times by strange apache configs, I have recently found and am growing to love Hiawatha. It's a
by arca_vorago 11y ago
While I like nginx over apache because I've been burned too many times by strange apache configs, I have recently found and am growing to love Hiawatha. It's a GPL webserver focused on security, uses PolarSSL which jut got bought out and is now mbed, and it's pretty fast. All the benchmarks I've seen show it comparable to stock nginx, apache, but once you tack on some of the optimizations nginx will beat Hiawatha. It also has a very easy config syntax.
Just for anyone interested: https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/ https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/
The dev doesn't do much advertising, so word of mouth on a place like HN really helps.
- faeron 11y agoWhat optimizations are you talking about? And how do those beat Hiawatha?
- arca_vorago 11y agoWell, I could have sworn I remember seeing a benchmark comparing stock vs basically tuned (config files) nginx, hiawatha, and a few others, where stock hiawatha won but tuned nginx beat it out, but I just spent ten minutes or so looking for it and couldn't find it, so I'm going to have to retract my earlier statement I suppose. Either way, I think Hiawatha is a great webserver that should get more attention. Especially since I am GPL proponent and Hiawatha is one of the only currently maintained GPL webservers. As a bonus here is a benchmark of nginx and hiawatha under attack. (notice the service drop on nginx) https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/weblog/64 https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/weblog/64