Hiawatha vs Phusion Passenger
Hiawatha
hiawatha.leisink.netPhusion Passenger
phusionpassenger.comSide by side
| Figure | Hiawatha | Phusion Passenger |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $1.96/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 5 |
| Spec score · Web Server Software | 8.1 (#8) | 8.1 (#11) |
| Performance | Features for speeding up websites include internal caching, keep-alive connections, request pipelining and GZip Content-Encoding. | Passenger says it supports evented I/O and multiple concurrency models, and includes Turbocaching. |
| Security | It supports TLS via mbed TLS and offers protection against SQL injection, XSS, CSRF/XSRF and DoS attacks. | Passenger says it defends against slow client attacks and common HTTP parser exploits and uses privilege separation. |
Plans
Phusion Passenger
- Passenger Enterprise Bronze supportFree
- Passenger Enterprise Silver support$23.52 a year
- Passenger Enterprise Gold support$89.11 a year
- Passenger Enterprise Diamond support$308.19 a year
- Passenger EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Hiawatha
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Phusion Passenger
Phusion Passenger has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.