Show HN: I built a memory-safe web server in Rust

Re:Show HN: I built a memory-safe web server in Rust by yoavm on Sunday March 02, 2025 @03:36AM (#43228545)

I suspect that people don't like changing web servers, and perhaps that's why it took the industry so long to move away from Apache. Ferron actually looks great — great performance, automatic TLS, easy reverse proxy configuration and more. Congrats on shipping this!

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Re:Show HN: I built a memory-safe web server in Rust by dorianniemiec on Sunday March 02, 2025 @03:43AM (#43228579)

Thank you for the feedback!

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Re:Show HN: I built a memory-safe web server in Rust by encom on Sunday March 02, 2025 @04:22AM (#43228758)

What's wrong with Apache?

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Re:Show HN: I built a memory-safe web server in Rust by yoavm on Sunday March 02, 2025 @06:41AM (#43229431)

It is often slower, harder to configure, and has fewer features than Nginx, Caddy, etc.

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Re:Show HN: I built a memory-safe web server in Rust by mhitza on Sunday March 02, 2025 @09:27PM (#43237659)

Slower? Yes. But my impression was always that it had more features than nginx. Unless you compare it with the enterprise offering?

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Re:Show HN: I built a memory-safe web server in Rust by throwaway032023 on Monday March 03, 2025 @08:54AM (#43241726)

Openresty distribution of nginx with lua scripting is game changer vs. Apache.

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Re:Show HN: I built a memory-safe web server in Rust by yoavm on Monday March 03, 2025 @12:07PM (#43244000)

You are right, I'm talking more about features that the average (modern) user would need, like automatic SSL setup.

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Re:Show HN: I built a memory-safe web server in Rust by hu3 on Sunday March 02, 2025 @03:27PM (#43234673)

Yeah it surprised me when Caddy [1] started gaining traction for that reason.

It's much better than the old competition in many ways, so there's that.

https://caddyserver.com

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