🆚 Phusion Passenger vs. WEBrick

📈 Phusion Passenger is much more popular than WEBrick.
🌍 Phusion Passenger is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Phusion Passenger

WEBrick

Type

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.

WEBrick is an HTTP server toolkit that can be configured as an HTTPS server, a proxy server, and a virtual host server.

Headquarters

Apeldoorn, Netherlands

Website

phusionpassenger.com #3,749,304

GitHub #14

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Open source

Passenger Enterprise $44.56+/month

Free ✔️ Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Phusion Passenger web server is 143 times more popular than WEBrick.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Phusion Passenger is more popular than WEBrick in all countries.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Canada

France

Japan

Russia

Poland

Spain

Italy

Awards

⭐ 5th most popular in Croatia in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 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.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Phusion Passenger is more popular than WEBrick 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.

Name

Rank

#2,357

#2,463

#3,017

#4,487

#4,615

Name

Rank

#147,120

#322,081