thttpd might be a bit more popular than Dat. We know about 1 link to it since March 2021 and only 1 link to Dat. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Yes there are some really interesting projects, also in the ML replicability space. One really nice approach is the DAT project [1]. The protocol [2] looks pretty sensible and useful. Unfortunately, the tooling has been in such a state of permanent flux (i.e. Perpetual deprecation) that I've never bothered to invest much time. [1] https://datproject.org/ [1] https://datproject.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
Similar is thttpd. I was not familiar with darkhttpd. Both of these are similar to the sqlite server in security design (chroot capability), but unlike in that a single process serves all requests and does not fork. https://acme.com/software/thttpd/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
Beaker browser - Beaker is a browser for IPFS and Dat.
mini_httpd - mini_httpd is a small HTTP server for low or medium traffic sites.
IPFS - IPFS is the permanent web. A new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.
micro_httpd - micro_httpd is a very small Unix-based HTTP server.
Sia - Sia - Decentralized data storage
HTTP - is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, and hypermedia information systems.