NGINX Unit VS Cowboy

NGINX Unit

A dynamic web and application server with Go, PHP, Python, Perl, and Ruby support.

Cowboy

Small, fast, modular HTTP server written in Erlang.

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Categories	Web And Application Servers Application Server Web Servers SSH
Website	nginx.com
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Categories	Web And Application Servers HTTP HTTP/2 Web Server Virtual Mobile Numbers
Website	ninenines.eu
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NGINX Unit videos

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NGINX Unit Demo (2019)

Cowboy videos

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COWBOY 3 REVIEW: Why I shipped my Cowboy 3 e-bike back.

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to NGINX Unit and Cowboy)

Cowboy

Application Server

100 100%

Application Server

0% 0

Web And Application Servers

15 15%

Web And Application Servers

85% 85

HTTP

0 0%

HTTP

100% 100

Web Servers

100 100%

Web Servers

0% 0

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Cowboy seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 5 times since March 2021. 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.

NGINX Unit mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of NGINX Unit yet. Tracking of NGINX Unit recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Cowboy mentions (5)

Does the Heroku Ruby Stack use Log4j?
According to the 'Server' response header, Cowboy is the customer facing web server Https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy. Source: over 2 years ago
How to create an Erlang rebar3 release derivation with dependencies?
===> sh(git clone -n https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy .tmp_dir636214859401) Failed with return code 128 and the following output: Cloning into '.tmp_dir636214859401'... Fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy/': SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate. Source: over 2 years ago
Oh Erlang... where have you been all my life?
RE: HTTP/Web Sockets/TCP/UDP/etc. - check out NineNines libraries: Ranch (TCP Socket Acceptor), Cowboy (HTTP Server), Gun (HTTP client), and CowLib (General HTTP/SPDY library) are pretty good from what I hear. Source: over 2 years ago
Build an Elixir Redis Server that's 100x faster than HTTP
Ranch is a pretty well optimized and battle hardened tcp acceptor. It powers the Cowboy/Phoenix server which scales to extreme level of concurrency and low latency. Cowboy uses ranch to pool and accept connections and I believe it uses {active,once}. https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy https://github.com/ninenines/ranch. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
try-catch vs "let it crash"
I have a web application which uses cowboy and cachex every so often cachex errors, which means my server returns a 500. Source: over 2 years ago