Servers and Clusters for Internet

Apache Web Server

The Apache HTTPd Server, called simply Apache, is a free and open-source cross-platform web server software, released under the terms of Apache License 2.0. Apache Web Server is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation. The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.

HAProxy Load Balancer

HAProxy, which stands for High Availability Proxy, is a popular open source software TCP/HTTP Load Balancer and proxying solution. HAProxy is free, open source software that provides a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based applications that spreads requests across multiple servers. It is a TCP/HTTP reverse proxy which is particularly suited for high availability environments. It features connection persistence through HTTP cookies, load balancing, header addition, modification, deletion both ways. It has request blocking capabilities and provides interface to display server status.

NodeJs Javascript Server

NodeJs (Node.js) is an open-source, cross-platform, server-side JavaScript runtime environment that runs on a JavaScript Engine (V8 engine) and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser, which was designed to build scalable network applications. NodeJs lets developers use JavaScript to write command line tools and for server-side scripting-running scripts server-side to produce dynamic web page content before the page is sent to the user's web browser. Consequently, NodeJs represents a "JavaScript everywhere" paradigm, unifying web-application development around a single programming language, rather than different languages for server-side and client-side scripts.

Bind DNS Server

BIND is an open source implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet maintained by ISC (Internet Systems Consortium). BIND 9 is intended to be fully compliant with the IETF DNS standards and draft standards. Important features of BIND 9 include: TSIG, nsupdate, IPv6, RNDC (remote name daemon control), views, multiprocessor support, Response Rate Limiting (RRL), DNSSEC, and broad portability. RNDC enables remote configuration updates, using a shared secret to provide encryption for local and remote terminals during each session.

OpenSMTPD Mail Server

OpenSMTPD is a FREE implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined by RFC 5321, with some additional standard extensions. It allows ordinary machines to exchange emails with other systems speaking the SMTP protocol. Started out of dissatisfaction with other implementations, OpenSMTPD is a fairly complete SMTP implementation.

Dovecot IMAP4 Server

Dovecot is an open source IMAP4 and POP3 email server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. It is an excellent choice for both small and large installations. It's fast, simple to set up, requires no special administration and it uses very little memory. Supports both: the standard mbox and Maildir formats.

MongoDB - BigData

MongoDB is a cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional schemas. Big Data refers to very large and often complex data sets, so massive in size that they’re beyond the capability of managing with traditional software tools. That's why non-relational databases such as MongoDB (which are inherently designed to handle unstructured inputs) are a great fit for Big Data, especially in the cloud.

CouchDB - BigData

Apache CouchDB is an open-source document-oriented NoSQL database. CouchDB uses multiple formats and protocols to store, transfer, and process its data, it uses JSON to store data, JavaScript as its query language using MapReduce, and HTTP for an API. Seamless multi-master sync, that scales from Big Data to Mobile, with an Intuitive HTTP/JSON API and designed for Reliability.

PostgreSQL and PgPool-II

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational Database system with a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. PgPool-II is a middleware that sits between PostgreSQL servers and a PostgreSQL database client that extends PostgreSQL with clustering capabilities and provide many features like: Connection Pooling, Load Balancing, Replication, Automated Fail Over and Recovery, etc.

MariaDB (MySQL) and Galera

MariaDB is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. MariaDB intended to maintain high compatibility with MySQL, ensuring a drop-in replacement capability with library binary parity and exact matching with MySQL APIs and commands. However, new features diverge more (ex: XtraDB replaces InnoDB). MariaDB server can be integrated with Galera Cluster that extends it with the feature of acting as a synchronous multi-master cluster.

Redis In-Memory DataStore

Redis is an open source in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker that supports many types of data structures. It is considered being one of the fastest in-memory key-value database. Redis is a popular choice for caching, session management, gaming, leaderboards, real-time analytics, geospatial, ride-hailing, chat/messaging, media streaming, and pub/sub apps.

Memcached DataStore

Memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory-caching system. It is often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the number of times an external data source must be read.