Hiawatha vs RoadRunner
Hiawatha
hiawatha.leisink.netRoadRunner
roadrunner.devSide by side
| Figure | Hiawatha | RoadRunner |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Web Server Software | 8.1 (#8) | 7.3 (#24) |
| Intended use | The maker says Hiawatha's lightweight design makes it suitable for older hardware or embedded systems. | The documentation describes RoadRunner as designed to replace traditional Nginx plus PHP-FPM setups. |
| License | The webserver is distributed under GNU GPL version 2. | The documentation describes RoadRunner as open source and MIT licensed. |
| Performance | Features for speeding up websites include internal caching, keep-alive connections, request pipelining and GZip Content-Encoding. | RoadRunner uses Golang goroutines and multithreading to speed up PHP processing and reduce server load. |
| Protocols | Hiawatha supports HTTP/2 and IPv6. | RoadRunner supports PSR-7 and PSR-17 compatible HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and FastCGI servers. |
| Security | It supports TLS via mbed TLS and offers protection against SQL injection, XSS, CSRF/XSRF and DoS attacks. | The documentation describes RoadRunner as PCI DSS compliant. |
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In their own words
Hiawatha
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RoadRunner
RoadRunner has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.