🆚 OpenResty vs. Phusion Passenger
- 📈 OpenResty is much more popular than Phusion Passenger.
- 🌎 OpenResty is more popular in the United States, China, and Korea.
- 🌍 Phusion Passenger is more popular in Croatia, Luxembourg, and Andorra.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Web server
Web server
About
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
Millbrae, California, United States
Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Open source
Passenger Enterprise$43.32+/month
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #5
Web Servers › Rank #13
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The OpenResty web server is 18 times more popular than Phusion Passenger.
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 Phusion Passenger is more popular in Croatia, Luxembourg, and Andorra.
United States
China
Korea
Netherlands
Russia
Germany
Slovakia
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
Vietnam
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Samoa in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Slovakia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Seychelles in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Croatia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Ukraine in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Poland in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Mexico in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
OpenResty is more popular than Phusion Passenger in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Travel
General News
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

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