Upcoming Cherokee web server release

Lately I’ve been getting more involved in an interesting open source project. It is an extremely fast and flexible web server called Cherokee that has been around for some time now. The project started in 2001 and currently Cherokee is available in most Linux and *BSD flavors. You can find those, the source code and versions for Windows and Opensolaris at the download page. The code base is really nice in my opinion, and the server is rock solid and pretty fast.

Although a lot of effort has been put in the development branch, a new version hasn’t been released for quite some time. That is going to change shortly since the project has been steadily gaining momentum and release 0.6.0 is right around the corner. I strongly encourage everyone to check it up as soon as it’s ready. Besides too many improvements to list here, a new graphical interface called cherokee-admin has been developed in Python to make the configuration process easier.

I’ll be writing a couple of HOWTOs about the new version as soon as it is production ready, but keep a close watch on the project’s and Alvaro’s websites for the upcoming release. If you can’t wait until then, take a look at the Subversion repository. As I said before, the server is robust, fast and feature rich… and each of these qualities is only going to get better and better. Stay tuned! ;)