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Cherokee vs lighttpd: What are the differences?
Developers describe Cherokee as "High-performance web server". Cherokee is highly efficient, extremely lightweight and provides rock solid stability. Among its many features there is one that deserves special credit: a user friendly interface called cherokee-admin that is provided for a no-hassle configuration of every single feature of the server. On the other hand, lighttpd is detailed as "A secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web-server that has been optimized for high-performance environments". lighttpd has a very low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software for every server that suffers load problems.
Cherokee and lighttpd belong to "Web Servers" category of the tech stack.
"The logo is cute" is the primary reason why developers consider Cherokee over the competitors, whereas "Lightweight" was stated as the key factor in picking lighttpd.
Pros of Cherokee
- The logo is cute4
Pros of lighttpd
- Lightweight7
- Easy setup6
- Simplicity2
- Full featured2
- Proxy2
- Virtal hosting2
- Open source2
- Available modules1
- Fast1
- Security1
- Ssl support1