🆚 Google Host Server vs. OpenResty

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 OpenResty is much more popular than Google Host Server.
🌎 OpenResty is more popular in the United States, China, and Korea.
🌍 Google Host Server is more popular in Indonesia, Burkina Faso, and Tanzania.

Google Host Server

OpenResty

Type

Web server

About

Google Host Server (GHS) is a proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.

OpenResty is an Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server.

It embeds Lua, a lightweight scripting language, into Nginx's event-driven architecture, enabling high-performance dynamic request handling, asynchronous I/O, API and microservice development, traffic control, caching, authentication, and logging.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Millbrae, California, United States

Website

google.com #1

openresty.org #161,345

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The OpenResty web server is 16 times more popular than Google Host Server.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

OpenResty is more popular in the United States, China, and Korea, while Google Host Server is more popular in Indonesia, Burkina Faso, and Tanzania.

United States

China

Korea

Netherlands

Russia

Slovakia

Germany

United Kingdom

Czech Republic

India