🆚 Phusion Passenger vs. Tornado
- 📈 Phusion Passenger is much more popular than Tornado.
- 🌎 Phusion Passenger is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Tornado is more popular in French Polynesia.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Web server
Web server
About
Phusion Passenger a fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js.
It can run standalone or as an Nginx or
Apache module, provides rolling restarts for zero-downtime deployments, and uses "smart spawning" with copy-on-write to reduce memory usage.
Tornado is a scalable, non-blocking web server and web application framework written in Python.
Headquarters
Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Pricing
Free version ✔️ Open source
Passenger Enterprise $44.56+/month
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #12
Web Servers › Rank #30
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Phusion Passenger web server is 90 times more popular than Tornado.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Phusion Passenger is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Tornado is more popular in French Polynesia.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Canada
France
Japan
Russia
Spain
Poland
Italy
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Ukraine in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Canada in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Poland in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Phusion Passenger is more popular than Tornado in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Sports
Entertainment
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Real Estate
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 3,816,780 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
Phusion Passenger

