Five vs Passenger
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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. | It is a low-code development environment that helps software developers build and deploy custom business applications faster by providing them with pre-built components that can be mixed with full code almost anywhere. Five is fully extensible through SQL, JavaScript, and TypeScript. |
| - | Full-stack and low-code;
Manage and create a web-hosted MySQL database;
Deploy to development, testing, or production in a single click;
Create and manage application instances;
Build CRUD applications with granular access control;
Full audit trail of all application changes |
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GitHub Stars 5.1K | GitHub Stars - |
GitHub Forks 557 | GitHub Forks - |
Stacks 1.4K | Stacks 4 |
Followers 298 | Followers 6 |
Votes 199 | Votes 0 |
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NGINX
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Apache HTTP Server
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Blazor
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Unicorn
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Stamplay
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Gunicorn
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Jetty
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lighttpd
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.
