Lwan
Le Mon 03 February 2025
https://lwan.ws/ https://github.com/lpereira/lwan
Lwan is a high-performance & scalable web server.
Requests per second vs. number of concurrent connections?
performance-chart Hello, World! (C) 100B file Hello, World! (LuaJIT) 32KiB file Lwan was until recently just a personal research effort that focused mostly on building a solid infrastructure for a lightweight and speedy web server.
With its low disk and memory footprints, it's suitable to be used from embedded devices to robust servers. Both static and dynamic content can be served, as it can also be used as a library. Dynamic content can be generated by code written in either C or Lua.
Its simple architecture and tiny source code guarantees the entire code base can be easily grokked.