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Passenger vs Zero Server: What are the differences?
Passenger: A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. Phusion Passenger is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. It takes a lot of complexity out of deploying web apps, adds powerful enterprise-grade features that are useful in production, and makes administration much easier and less complex; Zero Server: Zero configuration web framework. Build your application without worrying about package management or routing. Write your code in a mix of Node.js, React, HTML, MDX, and static files.
Passenger and Zero Server can be primarily classified as "Web Servers" tools.
Passenger and Zero Server are both open source tools. It seems that Zero Server with 5.1K GitHub stars and 171 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Passenger with 4.41K GitHub stars and 506 GitHub forks.
Pros of Passenger
- Nginx integration43
- Great for rails36
- Fast web server21
- Free19
- Lightweight15
- Scalable14
- Rolling restarts13
- Multithreading10
- Out-of-process architecture9
- Low-bandwidth6
- Virtually infinitely scalable2
- Deployment error resistance2
- Mass deployment2
- High-latency2
- Many of its good features are only enterprise level1
- Apache integration1
- Secure1
- Asynchronous I/O1
- Multiple programming language support1
Pros of Zero Server
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Cons of Passenger
- Cost (some features require paid/pro)0