2010-11-11 10:01:51 
阿炯
Cherokee 号称是目前最快的 Web 服务器软件，在性能上，甚至比 Nginx 还略胜一筹。与 Apache、Lighttpd、Nginx 等其他同类软件的对比，大家不妨看看官方的测试页面。其易用性做得也很不错。
Cherokee 的功能包括支持 FastCGI、SCGI、PHP、CGI、TLS 及 SSL 加密连接，虚拟主机，授权认证，实时编码，载入均衡，与 Apache 兼容的 log 文件等等。
Cherokee 最具特色的地方在于内置了一个名为 cherokee-admin 的工具，执行后，允许管理员直接通过浏览器对其进行管理和配置。比如，开启或关闭服务器，进行一般选项的设定，配置虚拟服务器、信息源、图标、Mime 类型等项目。另外还集成了 RRD-tool 工具，无需任何配置就可以生成服务器流量表等监控数据。
Cherokee is really really fast. The speed at which any web server can serve requests for content is both directly tied to and limited by the I/O speed of underlying hardware and operating system. In this regard, a web server's performance is measured by the latency incurred after an I/O request to the underlying system has completed.
The primary objective of the Cherokee project is to reduce to zero the latency incurred between the time a dynamic or static system I/O request has completed and the time the resulting content is served to the requesting client. Admittedly, a very tough goal to reach.
In fact, it might be impossible. But achieving that which was once seen as impossible is what drives innovation. And it's innovation that drives the ongoing development of the Cherokee project, bringing us closer to the impossible with each new release.
To show the project's progression towards the ultimate goal, whenever a benchmark is performed it will be published right here. Older releases had impressive but not very thorough benchmarks. Whenever it is possible the conditions of the benchmark will be provided so that anyone can replicate the results. That is, after all, an essential basis of the Scientific method.
最新版本：1.2
增加对 HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) 的支持以及修复了很多bug。改进了 TLS/SSL、IPv6、反向代理中的多IP主机管理以及 FastCGI, uWSGI 和 SCGI 处理器。该版本同时修复了一些内存泄漏的问题，建议升级。
官方主页：http://www.cherokee-project.com/