Hiawatha

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NoOpen source

YesFree tier

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Hiawatha is an advanced, secure webserver designed for Unix.

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Hiawatha webserverGPL version 2Free

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Website: hiawatha.leisink.net
Price: Free tier
Free trial: No
Access control: Access to websites can be controlled with Basic or Digest HTTP authentication or by IP address.
CGI and FastCGI: Hiawatha supports CGI scripts and FastCGI, including load balancing, and includes a CGI wrapper for security.
Founded: 2002
Free monitor: The Hiawatha Monitor is free.
Intended use: The maker says Hiawatha's lightweight design makes it suitable for older hardware or embedded systems.
License: The webserver is distributed under GNU GPL version 2.
Monitoring: Hiawatha Monitor provides one interface to track the performance and security of Hiawatha webservers.
Monitoring requirements: Hiawatha Monitor is a PHP web application with a MySQL backend and requires cron to periodically download statistics.
Performance: Features for speeding up websites include internal caching, keep-alive connections, request pipelining and GZip Content-Encoding.
Protocols: Hiawatha supports HTTP/2 and IPv6.
Reverse proxy: Its built-in reverse proxy can integrate other web solutions or act as an application firewall in front of other webservers.
Security: It supports TLS via mbed TLS and offers protection against SQL injection, XSS, CSRF/XSRF and DoS attacks.

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