Apache HTTP Server vs. Apache Traffic Server vs. MacHTTP-js vs. kWS Comparison Chart

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.

kWS is a lightweight and fast Web Server especially designed for Android mobile devices. It can be used to host websites and to serve files over HTTP. kWS implements HTTP-1.0. Basic & digest authentication for secure access. Server side includes (SSI). Directory index, directory downloads in tar, tgz & zip formats. Resumable file downloads, built-in Dynamic DNS updates, up to 20 parallel connections, comprehensive HTTP logs. HTTPS/TLS support with BKS & PKCS12 keystores. Password-based file encryption (128 bit AES & Triple DES). GZip file compression, directory index in JSON & XML formats and index sorting, highly configurable with support for up to 999 per-port parallel connections. Directory level configuration, support for more Dynamic DNS providers like ZoneEdit etc. kWS also provides auto start on boot.