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Unicorn

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

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Unicorn

Apache Tomcat Phusion Passenger Apache HTTP Server Wildfly Gunicorn Apache ZooKeeper web2py Puma Undertow CocoaHTTPServer

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Unicorn are Apache Tomcat, Phusion Passenger, and Apache HTTP Server. 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. 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

  3. 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

  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 concurrent web server for Ruby.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Application Server #Web Servers 3 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. CocoaHTTPServer is a small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server

  11. High-performance web server
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server

  12. ejabberd is a robust, massively scalable and extensible XMPP server.
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    • Open Source

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

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