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Hiawatha
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hiawatha webserver | GPL version 2 | Free |
As hiawatha.leisink.net lists them, read 8 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from Hiawatha's own pages
- Access control
- Access to websites can be controlled with Basic or Digest HTTP authentication or by IP address. · hiawatha.leisink.net, 8 Oct 2026
- CGI and FastCGI
- Hiawatha supports CGI scripts and FastCGI, including load balancing, and includes a CGI wrapper for security. · hiawatha.leisink.net, 8 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2002 · hiawatha.leisink.net, 28 Sept 2026
- Free monitor
- The Hiawatha Monitor is free. · hiawatha.leisink.net, 8 Oct 2026
- Intended use
- The maker says Hiawatha's lightweight design makes it suitable for older hardware or embedded systems. · hiawatha.leisink.net, 8 Oct 2026
- License
- The webserver is distributed under GNU GPL version 2. · hiawatha.leisink.net, 8 Oct 2026
- Monitoring
- Hiawatha Monitor provides one interface to track the performance and security of Hiawatha webservers. · hiawatha.leisink.net, 8 Oct 2026
- Monitoring requirements
- Hiawatha Monitor is a PHP web application with a MySQL backend and requires cron to periodically download statistics. · hiawatha.leisink.net, 8 Oct 2026
- Performance
- Features for speeding up websites include internal caching, keep-alive connections, request pipelining and GZip Content-Encoding. · hiawatha.leisink.net, 8 Oct 2026
- Platforms
- The download page lists a MacOS X package, Debian/Ubuntu repository options, and FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports; it says the Windows package is compiled via Cygwin and is not recommended for production unless tested. · hiawatha.leisink.net, 8 Oct 2026
- Protocols
- Hiawatha supports HTTP/2 and IPv6. · hiawatha.leisink.net, 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Hiawatha is an advanced, secure webserver designed for Unix. · hiawatha.leisink.net, 8 Oct 2026
- Reverse proxy
- Its built-in reverse proxy can integrate other web solutions or act as an application firewall in front of other webservers. · hiawatha.leisink.net, 8 Oct 2026
- Security
- It supports TLS via mbed TLS and offers protection against SQL injection, XSS, CSRF/XSRF and DoS attacks. · hiawatha.leisink.net, 8 Oct 2026
- URL rewriting
- The URL toolkit can rewrite URLs, and predefined rules are available for popular PHP CMS applications. · hiawatha.leisink.net, 8 Oct 2026
Where Hiawatha stands on Freedom251
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