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Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie

Reputation: 640

What is the difference between various kinds of webservers

When PaaS comes into picture, I hear a lot of words NGINX, uWSGI, Gunicorn, lighthttpd, Apache .. etc.

This should be absolutely novice question. but what I primarily know is

A webserver listens requests performs operations and returns response

Now what I want to know is, what's the difference between

NGINX, lighthttpd, Apache, uWSGI and Gunicorn..etc both of these groups are web servers but what is the difference and where they are used?

I use a platform like openshift where they actually use Apache and we got to internally port it by using wsgi server..

Can I use NGINX or lighthttd instead of uWSGI or Gunicorn?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 625

Answers (1)

jimp
jimp

Reputation: 17477

This is a very broad question.

Web servers all serve web pages using the HTTP protocol. Check this comparison chart on Wikipedia for a lot of information about lots of web servers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_server_software

Upvotes: 1

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