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.
Passenger is a tool in the Web Servers category of a tech stack.
Passenger is an open source tool with 5K GitHub stars and 548 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Passenger's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Passenger?
Companies
1197 companies reportedly use Passenger in their tech stacks, including Accenture, GoDaddy, and Practo.
Developers
200 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Passenger.
Passenger Integrations
Python, Node.js, NGINX, Apache HTTP Server, and Ruby are some of the popular tools that integrate with Passenger. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Passenger.
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Passenger Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Passenger?
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.
