Passenger
Stefan Wienert
May 19, 2015
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Passenger
Platform as a ServiceWhat 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.
WordPress
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
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.
