Passenger
Stefan Wienert
May 19, 2015
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CommentsWhat 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 Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.
Passenger Pros & Cons
Pros of Passenger
- ✓Nginx integration
- ✓Great for rails
- ✓Fast web server
- ✓Free
- ✓Lightweight
- ✓Scalable
- ✓Rolling restarts
- ✓Multithreading
- ✓Out-of-process architecture
- ✓Low-bandwidth
Cons of Passenger
- ✗Cost (some features require paid/pro)
Passenger Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Passenger?
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.
Apache Tomcat
Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations.
Microsoft IIS
Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web applications, IIS's scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.