phorklift
Iodine
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phorklift
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Phorklift is an HTTP server and proxy daemon, with clear, powerful and dynamic configuration.
There are more examples most of which are simple like this one.
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Phorklift is an HTTP daemon with clear, powerful and dynamic configuration
Yes, you are right. Security is more important than stable, and they are the most basic requirements for a server program. I list it as the biggest disadvantage of Phorklist by now.
- Phorklift, another HTTP server and proxy daemon
Iodine
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Rage: Fast web framework compatible with Rails
Most of the speed I believe is from using the server iodine https://github.com/boazsegev/iodine which is a wrapper around facil.io https://facil.io that is built using C.
What are some alternatives?
dperf - dperf is a 100Gbps network load tester.
Puma - A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
merecat - Small and made-easy HTTP/HTTPS server based on Jef Poskanzer's thttpd
Phusion Passenger - A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js
tinypage - A tiny single-page http server.
falcon - A high-performance web server for Ruby, supporting HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and TLS.
httpserve - Spin up a little http server from the commandline.
Unicorn - Unofficial Unicorn Mirror.
cowboy - Small, fast, modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP.
Rack - A modular Ruby web server interface.
meinheld - Meinheld is a high performance asynchronous WSGI Web Server (based on picoev)
Goliath - Goliath is a non-blocking Ruby web server framework