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Followers296

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Cowboy vs Passenger: What are the differences?

What is Cowboy? Small, fast, modular HTTP server written in Erlang. 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.

What is Passenger? A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. 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.

Cowboy and Passenger belong to "Web Servers" category of the tech stack.

"Websockets integration" is the primary reason why developers consider Cowboy over the competitors, whereas "Nginx integration" was stated as the key factor in picking Passenger.

Cowboy and Passenger are both open source tools. It seems that Cowboy with 5.59K GitHub stars and 999 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Passenger with 4.41K GitHub stars and 505 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Cowboy

Pros of Passenger

8
Websockets integration
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Cool name
3
Good to use with Erlang
2
Anime mascot

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Nginx integration
36
Great for rails
21
Fast web server
19
Free
15
Lightweight
14
Scalable
13
Rolling restarts
10
Multithreading
9
Out-of-process architecture
6
Low-bandwidth
2
Virtually infinitely scalable
2
Deployment error resistance
2
Mass deployment
2
High-latency
1
Many of its good features are only enterprise level
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Apache integration
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Secure
1
Asynchronous I/O
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Multiple programming language support

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Cost (some features require paid/pro)

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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.

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.

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What are some alternatives to Cowboy and 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.

OpenResty

OpenResty (aka. ngx_openresty) is a full-fledged web application server by bundling the standard Nginx core, lots of 3rd-party Nginx modules, as well as most of their external dependencies.

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