Cherokee (web server)

Cherokee is an open-source, cross-platform, web server that runs on Linux, BSD variants, Solaris,, and Windows. It is a lightweight, high-performance web server/reverse proxy licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to be fast and fully functional yet still light. Major features of Cherokee include a graphical administration interface named cherokee-admin, and a modular light-weight design.
Cherokee is maintained and developed by an open source community.

WWW Official Site

Features

Web server features

TLS and SSL
Virtual servers
URL rewriting and redirections supporting regular expressions
Authentication via, htpasswd, LDAP, MySQL, PAM, plain, and fixed list.
Reverse HTTP proxy
HTTP load balancing
Traffic shaping
Custom and Apache compatible log format.
Ability to launch web applications on demand
Audio/video streaming
On the fly gzip and deflate compressions
Resilient to the 10000 simultaneous connections barrier
Server Side Includes
CGI
FastCGI
SCGI
uWSGI support chroot support
RRDtool statistics
Database bridging and sharding
Graphical configuration interface
Point & click deployments through an application market

Web applications

Configuration wizards are provided to automatically configure the web server to perform specific tasks, or run frameworks and applications. These provide support for: PHP through FastCGI, Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion, GlassFish, Django, Alfresco, GNU Mailman, .NET with Mono, rTorrent, Symfony, and Zend Engine, plus generic Video Streaming and uWSGI.

Devices running Cherokee

During the last few years Cherokee has been adopted by numerous electronic device makes and IoT technology manufacturers. Some examples include GoPro action cameras and drones, Xiaomi action cameras, Digi International's Internet of things kits, ATN Corporation's high-end rifle scopes, and Defender's security cameras. Since Cherokee is Open Source Software and does not require manufacturers to license the code, there is no way to know how many companies are embedding Cherokee in their products.