Nginx VS h5ai

However, it's very unlikely that .NET developers will directly expose their Kestrel-based web apps to the internet. Typically, we use other popular web servers like Nginx, Traefik, and Caddy to act as a reverse-proxy in front of Kestrel for various reasons:

> I actually don't understand why I am seeing arguments like this all the time.

Have a look at:

https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/master/src/http/modules/...

It's got the whole checklist: nginx idiosyncratic module system, inline parsing, custom utf conversion, buffer preallocation and adjustments, linked lists, comments about side effects of custom allocator, and probably other things.

It's not easy to deal with source like that and any serious improvement to that area would effectively be a rewrite anyway.

Since anything doing work in nginx is a module anyway, it wouldn't even have to be a full rewrite in one go.

According to this article, nGinx is being used to serve 34% of all websites in the world. I checked out who's contributing to nGinx, and just like I thought, the project has 8,208 commits, and 5,366 of those commits was made by 2 software developers; igorsoev and mdounin.

Nginx + Roadrunner (fcgi mode)

Apache’s mod_fastcgi’s last commit was 2 weeks ago:

https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/

It’s a fork of what you linked (and was more popular afaik back when fastcgi was state of the art, and apache was the undisputed champion of web servers).

These days, nginx has more market share than apache, and its fastcgi module is one of the more recently updated ones in its source tree (5 months vs multiple years):

https://github.com/nginx/nginx/tree/master/src/http/modules

If I was going to build an embedded web server, I’d start with nostd rust, probably with though axum + tokio, since thats already memory safe-ish.

If I needed fastcgi for some reason (dynamically loadable endpoints, or os-level isolation), there are at least four implementations of fastcgi for it. No idea if any are decent though.

APISIX is an API Gateway. It builds upon OpenResty, a Lua layer built on top of the famous nginx reverse-proxy. APISIX adds abstractions to the mix, e.g., Route, Service, Upstream, and offers a plugin-based architecture.

I suppose you could read the code. https://github.com/nginx/nginx

Seems to be not maintained since 3 years

https://github.com/lrsjng/h5ai

sounds more like webserver and some kind of autoindexer like https://larsjung.de/h5ai/ ? https://larsjung.de/h5ai/demo/

If it weren't for UPLOADS, i would suggest this: https://larsjung.de/h5ai/

Something like this or this should do the trick

This https://larsjung.de/h5ai/ comes to mind, but it does not have an easy way to upload stuff I believe.

https://larsjung.de/h5ai/ ?

https://github.com/lrsjng/h5ai . Downloading works as you'd expect. example.com/homework/private.zip

I currently share a seedbox with 3 friends, where we have Plex, Deluge and a simple h5ai Apache file index. What I want now is to make a NAS with Deluge, Jackett, Plex and something like Nextcloud or similar. I tried TrueNAS SCALE on a test machine and is great for what I want, that is to say having a Debian-based machine with Docker containers.

Web 2: https://github.com/lrsjng/h5ai/issues/758