Cherokee vs Mongoose Web Server: What are the differences?

What is Cherokee? High-performance web server. Cherokee is highly efficient, extremely lightweight and provides rock solid stability. Among its many features there is one that deserves special credit: a user friendly interface called cherokee-admin that is provided for a no-hassle configuration of every single feature of the server.

What is Mongoose Web Server? The most easy to use web server on the planet. Mongoose is built on top of Libmongoose embedded library, which can turn anything into a web server in 5 minutes worth of effort and few lines of code. Libmongoose is used to serve Web GUI on embedded devices, implement RESTful services, RPC frameworks (e.g. JSON-RPC), handle telemetry data exchange, and perform many other tasks in various different industries including aerospace, manufacturing, finance, research, automotive, gaming, IT.

Cherokee and Mongoose Web Server can be categorized as "Web Servers" tools.

Mongoose Web Server is an open source tool with 5.51K GitHub stars and 1.61K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mongoose Web Server's open source repository on GitHub.