lighttpd vs Lwan vs Mongoose Web Server

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Pros of Mongoose Web Server
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    Lightweight
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    Easy setup
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    Virtal hosting
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    Simplicity
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    Full featured
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    Proxy
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    Open source
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    Available modules
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    Fast
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    Security
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    Ssl support
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    C and Lua Scripting
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    Free
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    High-performance http server
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    Performance
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    Light weight
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    Easy to configure
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What is lighttpd?

lighttpd has a very low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software for every server that suffers load problems.

What is Lwan?

In development for almost 3 years, Lwan was until now a personal research effort that focused mostly on building a solid infrastructure for a lightweight and speedy web server.

What is Mongoose Web Server?

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.

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        What are some alternatives to lighttpd, Lwan, and Mongoose Web Server?
        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.
        LiteSpeed
        It is a drop-in Apache replacement and the leading high-performance, high-scalability server. You can replace your existing Apache server with it without changing your configuration or operating system details. As a drop-in replacement, it allows you to quickly eliminate Apache bottlenecks in 15 minutes with zero downtime.
        Caddy
        Caddy 2 is a powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go.
        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.
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