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I test my new version of Fapws4 against other wsgi solutions and even against apache

Posted on 2026-03-14 22:04:00 by Vincent in FreeBSD fapws

Photo by Wang Sheeran on unsplash.com I've made lot of modificaitons inside Fapws4 those last days/weeks. It remains a strong and very fast WSGI server offering all flexibility of Python. This is mainly than,ks to the libuv library and the picohttp parser. This blog will show how Fapws4 resist to massive requests and to compare results with other SWGI solutions. I will even compare it with apache24.

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FAPWS is still in the game ;)

Posted on 2024-07-08 18:52:00 by Vincent in fapws

It's about 10 years now that I'm using FAPWS as WSGI server. Despite his very simple code base, it's remains the fastest I can test. This surprised me.

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Fapws4 is running without troubles since 100 days

Posted on 2019-10-13 21:27:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD fapws

Today it's exactly 100 days that my website is running on top of Fapws4 without any troubles.

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Fapws4 a Fast Asynchronous Python Web Server

Posted on 2019-07-17 14:34:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD fapws

Fapws4 is a re-write of fapws3, but using libraries like libuv and picohttpparser. So, the goal is to build a very fast python web server where most of the processing aspects are written in C. The developer using it, will have to simply write the logic of his web pages in Python.

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In the series of Fast Asynchronous Python web servers

Posted on 2019-06-15 08:22:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD fapws

As already discussed on this blog, I'm a user of Fapws3 since several years. I like his small foot print in memory, simplicity to use in Python. But it runs only with Python-2.x and cannot manage correctly POST commands with big files.

So, I've decided to jump into the C programming language and develop Fapws4. An evolution of Fapws3, that do not have those pain points.

In this blog, I will show you first results of Fapws4

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Fapws versus GO

Posted on 2019-02-10 21:17:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD fapws

I'm still looking for a replacement to the good old fapws web server. So, in this blog, I will put fapws in front of web server written in Go

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Fast asynchronous python web server is really fast

Posted on 2018-11-01 13:18:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD fapws

Since several years, I'm using fapws3 for few of my websites. Mainly for servers where resources are limited.

Fapws3 has not received lot of commits since long time, so, this post will show my investigation to find an other tiny and fast python web server running python3

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Light webserver

Posted on 2017-05-01 14:49:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD fapws

In this post I would like to share some feedback concerning the Fast Asynchronous Python Web Server I'm using for this web site.

Fapws is no more updated since 2012 !!! Should I migrate to something better: httpd ?

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