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Tornado

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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Tornado

Apache Tomcat Apache HTTP Server Phusion Passenger Wildfly Gunicorn Apache ZooKeeper web2py nginx Undertow ejabberd

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Tornado are Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, and Phusion Passenger. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. An open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Application Server #Java 14 social mentions

  2. Apache httpd has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 50 social mentions

  3. Phusion Passenger is a multi-language (Ruby, Python, Node) web & app server which can integrate into Apache and Nginx
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web Servers #HTTP/2 Web Server #Web And Application Servers 1 social mentions

  4. WildFly is a flexible, lightweight application server.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 1 social mentions

  5. Gunicorn is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 31 social mentions

  6. Apache ZooKeeper is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source server which enables highly reliable distributed coordination.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 29 social mentions

  7. 7
    Web2py is an open source web application framework.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 1 social mentions

  8. 8
    A high performance free open source web server powering busiest sites on the Internet.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 46 social mentions

  9. Undertow is a webserver​ written in Java, providing both blocking and non-blocking API’s based on NIO.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server

  10. ejabberd is a robust, massively scalable and extensible XMPP server.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Group Chat & Notifications #Web And Application Servers #Communication 2 social mentions

  11. 11
    Small, fast, modular HTTP server written in Erlang.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #HTTP #HTTP/2 Web Server 5 social mentions

  12. 12
    Lwan is a high-performance web server with a low disk and memory footprint.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web Servers #Web And Application Servers #Application Server 1 social mentions

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