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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.

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Pros of Passenger
Pros of Zero Server
  • 43
    Nginx integration
  • 36
    Great for rails
  • 21
    Fast web server
  • 19
    Free
  • 15
    Lightweight
  • 14
    Scalable
  • 13
    Rolling restarts
  • 10
    Multithreading
  • 9
    Out-of-process architecture
  • 6
    Low-bandwidth
  • 2
    Virtually infinitely scalable
  • 2
    Deployment error resistance
  • 2
    Mass deployment
  • 2
    High-latency
  • 1
    Many of its good features are only enterprise level
  • 1
    Apache integration
  • 1
    Secure
  • 1
    Asynchronous I/O
  • 1
    Multiple programming language support
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    Cons of Passenger
    Cons of Zero Server
    • 0
      Cost (some features require paid/pro)
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      What is Passenger?

      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.

      What is Zero Server?

      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.

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          What are some alternatives to Passenger and Zero Server?
          Puma
          Unlike other Ruby Webservers, Puma was built for speed and parallelism. Puma is a small library that provides a very fast and concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby web applications.
          NGINX
          nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
          Apache HTTP Server
          The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
          Amazon EC2
          It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
          Firebase
          Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
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