Cherokee claims to be the fastest Web server software in the world, in performance, even above than Nginx. and http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/14417.html ">apache, LIGHTTPD, Nginx and other similar software comparison, you may wish to look at this test page." The ease of use is also very good.
Cherokee features include support for FastCGI, scgi, PHP, CGI, TLS, and SSL encryption connections, virtual hosts, authorization authentication, real-time coding, load balancing, and Apache-compatible log files, and more.
Cherokee contains a tool called Cherokee-admin, which allows administrators to manage and configure them directly through the browser into the http://localhost:9090/. For example, turn on or off the server, set the general options, configure the virtual server, information sources, icons, Mime types, and other items.
Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays:fastcgi, scgi, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted 50x15, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding, Apache compatible log files, HTTP Load balancing, Data Base balancing, SSI, Reverse http Proxy, bandwidth shaping, Audio and video streaming, Uwsgi, and much more.
Cherokee also provides a easy to use revisit interface "allows to configure" the server from top to NRC without Has to edit a-text revisit file, and can Evan automatically deploy Web applications in a matter of seconds.
Please visit the Cherokee Web Server site for more information.
Update log:
* Fix:a Few usability issue were fixed (admin)
* Upd:cookbooks have been updated (DOC)
Download Address:
A tarballs file is already available for your to download:
Http://www.cherokee-project.com/download/1.2/1.2.1/cherokee-1.2.1.tar.gz
* md5:2204b9da5b910a8fe251f5dee4506155
* Sha1:982bc99e966218661abd562d604aea32923bfde9
A OS X binary package is available to Intel based Macs at:
Http://www.cherokee-project.com/download/1.2/1.2.1/MacOSX/Cherokee-1.2.1.dmg