Comparison gunicorn vs Apache

Green Unicorn, also popularly known as ‘Gunicorn’, is a server available on UNIX. It is an HTTP server that is known to work with a wide range of web-based frameworks. It is designed to be easy to implementation and offers fast speed. It is based on the Python programming language. It mainly relies on GitHub for project management and comes with a bug tracker, forum and mailing list. Gunicorn serves as a Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) and it is popular for its small size. It is known for the ease of configuration offered for Python and multiple workers. It also provides server hooks for the purpose of extensibility.

Apache provides a web server software provided by Apache Software Foundation. It is open-source software that can be downloaded for free. Its range of features includes Unix threading, a new build system, multiprotocol support, and support for non-unix platforms along with IPv6 support. It also comes with Apache filtering, Multilanguage error responses, native windows NT Unicode support along with a simple configuration. Apache server is recognized for its flexibility. It also has an active community and gets frequent updates. It provides extensive documentation to its users as well. Apache server is used by well-known companies such as IBM, eBay, Adobe, LinkedIn, Facebook and GTMetrix.