Passenger vs. Cowboy

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Web Servers

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I Use This

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Jobs

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Description

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 Cowboy?

Cowboy aims to provide a complete HTTP stack in a small code base. It is optimized for low latency and low memory usage, in part because it uses binary strings. Cowboy provides routing capabilities, selectively dispatching requests to handlers written in Erlang.

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Pros

Why do you like Passenger?

Why do developers choose Cowboy?

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Websockets integration
6
Cool name
2
Good to use with Erlang
0
Anime mascot

Why do you like Cowboy?

Cons

What are the cons of using Passenger?

0
Cost (some features require paid/pro)

Downsides of Passenger?

What are the cons of using Cowboy?

No Cons submitted yet for Cowboy

Downsides of Cowboy?

Pricing

How much does Passenger cost?

How much does Cowboy cost?

Companies

What companies use Passenger?

416 companies on StackShare use Passenger

What companies use Cowboy?

12 companies on StackShare use Cowboy

Integrations

What tools integrate with Passenger?

6 tools on StackShare integrate with Passenger

No integrations listed yet

What are some alternatives to Passenger and Cowboy?

nginx - A high performance free open source web server powering busiest sites on the Internet.
Apache HTTP Server - Apache httpd has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996
Microsoft IIS - Internet Information Services is a web server for Microsoft Windows
Apache Tomcat - An open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies

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