How stable is Cherokee Web Server?

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I just installed Cherokee and gave it a try. I'm pretty impressed with it. The configuration of the server is certainly a new approach and I must say that I generaly like it (surprisingly). Do you have any experience with it? Is it reliable?

I installed it a few days back. Have not played with it yet. — Alan Haggai Alavi, Jul 08 '09 at 01:11

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 07 '10 at 10:03

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I have implemented Cherokee at various sites and from the beginning it outperformed Apache, and gave a great administrator interface that everyone can use but requires a little read up regarding the rule evaluation. All problems are taken serious by the community, even the ones that are extremely hard to reproduce.

The highest uptime I had was around 50 days, and then I wanted to have the new release so I restarted it gracefully without any service window.

edited Apr 07 '10 at 10:03

Peter Mortensen

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answered Jul 08 '09 at 10:23

Still recommend it over Niginx? – BigSack Aug 22 '13 at 13:37

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '09 at 08:53

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I have two production servers running Cherokee under CentOS 5.3 without trouble for more than a month. I recommend it, works wonderful!

answered Jul 08 '09 at 08:53

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 08 '09 at 09:06

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I totally recommend it.

I've personally seen how Cherokee fixed a whole lot of performance issues, at the same time that it made administration tasks much easier and straightforward.

answered Jul 08 '09 at 09:06

score 3 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 07 '10 at 10:04

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We run Cherokee on our Slicehost production instances and our development and staging machines. We have it fronting web2py and for that purpose it is fantastic. Fast, reliable, easy to configure once you understand how it differs from what you know, like Apache.

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answered Sep 03 '09 at 22:25

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 07 '10 at 11:33

I have many Cherokee installation as well, mostly with Wordpress and Drupal but lately I installed one with Django. So far it has been working flawlessly along with memcached with 25-50k requests per day, which is not very high but I am working on a multiple locations and CDN project that is going to be 250k+ request per day and Cherokee will most likely be our main http server. On top of that the administration has never been easier. I also recommend it.

score 1 · Answer 6 · edited May 23 '11 at 17:17

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I have found it very impressive. The support for streaming and geoip is very helpful.

edited May 23 '11 at 17:17

Jason Plank

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answered May 12 '10 at 17:06

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 11 '10 at 09:21

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I'm using Cherokee as well and serve Wordpress (php fastcgi), Django (uWSGI) and Ruby on Rails (spawn-fgci) based projects on a cheap Rackspacecloud Server. It works perfect, I never had a Cherokee-related issue.

answered Oct 11 '10 at 09:21

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Nov 22 '10 at 21:29

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I'm running Cherokee since June on an Ubuntu dedicated server hosting my Web site called http://www.vehicall.com (mainly PERL scripts and JavaScript): it's quite fantastic for both speed and reliability points of vue !

answered Nov 22 '10 at 21:29

Germain

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Nov 30 '10 at 13:47

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I use cherokee to host Django applications. Very stable and easy to deploy common apps

answered Nov 30 '10 at 13:47

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered May 02 '11 at 15:12

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I am using Cherokee as main http server in two servers for more than a year (php fcgi, recently php-fpm). Never failed me, seriously.

Server issues are resolved quickly, support is superior!

answered May 02 '11 at 15:12

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