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Unicorn VS Phusion Passenger

Compare Unicorn VS Phusion Passenger and see what are their differences

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Unicorn logo Unicorn

Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections.

Phusion Passenger logo Phusion Passenger

Phusion Passenger is a multi-language (Ruby, Python, Node) web & app server which can integrate into Apache and Nginx
  • Unicorn Landing page
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    2023-09-12
  • Phusion Passenger Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-07-31

Unicorn videos

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War Thunder: Tiger H1 Super Unicorn Review

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Phusion Passenger videos

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Phusion Passenger Standalone: basic usage (old version)

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Unicorn and Phusion Passenger)

Unicorn

Phusion Passenger

Web And Application Servers
32 32%
Web And Application Servers
68% 68
Application Server
31 31%
Application Server
69% 69
Web Servers
30 30%
Web Servers
70% 70
Social Networks
100 100%
Social Networks
0% 0

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Reviews

These are some of the external sources and on-site user reviews we've used to compare Unicorn and Phusion Passenger

Unicorn Reviews

Unicorn vs. Puma vs. Passenger: which app server is right for you?
Puma and Passenger are equipped to handle slow clients. Unicorn cannot help with slow clients by itself: requests go directly to a worker process. Unicorn doesn't hide this. The Unicorn docs clearly state: "You should not allow unicorn to serve clients outside of your local network". However, you can get around by using Nginx as a reverse proxy and letting it buffer client...
Source: scoutapm.com

Phusion Passenger Reviews

Unicorn vs. Puma vs. Passenger: which app server is right for you?
I'm probably stating the obvious, but you can't use a multithreading app server if your app isn't threadsafe. In that case, Puma, Unicorn, and Passenger can all work. For Puma, you'll just limit each worker process to one thread. It then behaves like Unicorn or the open-source Passenger version.
Source: scoutapm.com

Social recommendations and mentions

Phusion Passenger might be a bit more popular than Unicorn. We know about 1 link to it since March 2021 and only 1 link to Unicorn. 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.

Unicorn mentions (1)

Phusion Passenger mentions (1)

  • Passenger isn't loading my app directory
    Okay so, I tried a few things. I'll do some explaining so we're on the same page, since it's my first project and I don't really know what I'm talking about. I'm following this guide on the phusionpassenger.com website. Source: 12 months ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Unicorn and Phusion Passenger, you can also consider the following products

Microsoft IIS - Internet Information Services is a web server for Microsoft Windows

Apache Tomcat - An open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies

LiteSpeed Web Server - LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is a high-performance Apache drop-in replacement.

Apache HTTP Server - Apache httpd has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996

Forge - Static web hosting made simple

Eclipse Jetty - Jetty is a highly scalable modular servlet engine and http server that natively supports many modern protocols like SPDY and WebSockets.

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