Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
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Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#2Are there benchmarks demonstrating its speed?
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#3I wonder why they left nginx off their comparisons. Is it simply because nginx is still faster I wonder
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#4looks like caddy clone in rust ;) good luck. I think it is way better than caddy. Auto TLS renewal is a banger. I was thinking the same to build but had no time to do it.
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#5https://github.com/errantmind/faf is the fastest Rust static "web server" per the most recent TechEmpower Round 23 (Plaintext); it is purposely barebones (provide content via Rust callback!) The top 3 Composite scores are all Rust web frameworks, also not necessarily intended as general-purpose web servers.
https://github.com/static-web-server/static-web-server wins the SEO (and GitHub star) battle, though apparently it is old enough to have a couple unmaintained dependencies.
I use https://github.com/sigoden/dufs as my personal file transfer Swiss Army knife since it natively supports file uploads; I will check out Ferron as a lighter reverse proxy with automatic SSL certs vs. Caddy.
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#6I wonder why they left nginx off their comparisons. Is it simply because nginx is still faster I wonder
Maybe because of marketing reasons or because I am biased in the comparisons?
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#7The author of Ferron web server here.
Thank you so much for submitting this, and thank you all for the support you have shown when I submitted the server on Hacker News.
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#8I wonder why they left nginx off their comparisons. Is it simply because nginx is still faster I wonder
Maybe because of marketing reasons or because I am biased in the comparisons?
So open question: is nginx faster?
I think this is really cool. More competition in this space is better not worse, I am merely curious to know how it stacks up
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#9https://github.com/errantmind/faf is the fastest Rust static "web server" per the most recent TechEmpower Round 23 (Plaintext); it is purposely barebones (provide content via Rust callback!) The top 3 Composite scores are all Rust web frameworks, also not necessarily intended as general-purpose web servers. https://github.com/static-web-server/static-web-server wins the SEO (and GitHub star) battle, though apparently…
Static Web Server is also old enough to use Hyper 0.14.x instead of Hyper 1.x used by Ferron.
I wish you good luck using Ferron then!
Re: Ferron – A fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust
#10looks like caddy clone in rust ;) good luck. I think it is way better than caddy. Auto TLS renewal is a banger. I was thinking the same to build but had no time to do it.
Thank you! I think that my web server is indeed similar to a popular Caddy web server.