Abyss Web Server vs. Apache HTTP Server vs. Apache Traffic Server vs. Java Comparison Chart

Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. Despite its small footprint, it supports HTTP/2, secure SSL/TLS connections (HTTPS), automated provisioning and renewal of free certificates from Let's Encrypt® (ACME v2), IPv6, on-the-fly HTTP compression, dynamic content generation through CGI/FastCGI scripts, ISAPI extensions, native ASP.NET, HTTP/HTTPS/WebSocket reverse proxying, eXtended Side Includes (XSSI), custom error pages, password protection, IP address control, anti-leeching, bandwidth throttling, and log rotation. It also features an automatic antihacking system as well as a multilingual remote web management interface that makes its configuration as easy as browsing a web site.

Apache Traffic Server™ software is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server. Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation, and currently used by several major CDNs and content owners. Improve your response time, while reducing server load and bandwidth needs by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages, images, and web service calls. Scales well on modern SMP hardware, handling 10s of thousands of requests per second. Easily add keep-alive, filter or anonymize content requests, or add load balancing by adding a proxy layer. APIs to write your own plug-ins to do anything from modifying HTTP headers to handling ESI requests to writing your own cache algorithm. Handling over 400TB a day at Yahoo! both as forward and reverse proxies, Apache Traffic Server is battle hardened.