The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx

Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by arca_vorago on Monday November 23, 2015 @05:05PM (#10617670)

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/

The dev doesn't do much advertising, so word of mouth on a place like HN really helps.

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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by faeron on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @08:45AM (#10627110)

What optimizations are you talking about? And how do those beat Hiawatha?

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Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx by arca_vorago on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @01:07PM (#10628525)

Well, 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

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