How to: Web servers
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**Web servers**

[Apache](https://httpd.apache.org/) - Most popular web server.

[OpenResty Manager](https://om.uusec.com/) - The easiest using, powerful and beautiful OpenResty Manager(Nginx Enhanced Version), open source alternative to OpenResty Edge.

[Beakon](https://github.com/RealDudePerson/beakon) - A self-host location sharing webserver. Beakon aims to leak as little data as possible and uses mostly self-contained libraries and local database files. Where possible, it will reference local files and not reach out over any network. 

[Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) - The HTTP/2 Web Server with Fully Managed TLS.

[Cherokee](https://cherokee-project.com/) - Lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy.

[Lighttpd](https://www.lighttpd.net/) - Web server more optimized for speed-critical environments.

[Nginx](https://nginx.org/) - Reverse proxy, load balancer, HTTP cache, and web server.

[uWSGI](https://github.com/unbit/uwsgi/) - The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services.

**Web Performance**

[HAProxy](https://www.haproxy.org/) - Software based load Balancing, SSL offloading and performance optimization, compression, and general web routing.

[Squid](https://www.squid-cache.org/) - Caching proxy for the web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.

[Traefik](https://traefik.io/) - Taefik is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease.

[Varnish](https://www.varnish-cache.org/) - HTTP based web application accelerator focusing on optimizing caching and compression.