possibly useful background for any http file server.

"Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems"

"Google Feed Server is an open source Atom Publishing Protocol server based on the Apache Abdera framework. Google Feed Server provides a simple back end for data adapters, which allows developers to quickly deploy a feed for an existing data source such as a database"

"Clarity is a Splunk like web interface for your server log files. It supports searching (using grep) as well as trailing log files in realtime. It has been written using the event based architecture based on EventMachine and so allows real-time search of very large log files. If you hit the browser Stop button it will also kill the grep / tail utility."

"Concurrence is a framework for creating massively concurrent network applications in Python."

"Fast Asynchronous Python Web Server (based on libev)" WSGI compliant webserver... impressive django test results noted here: http://william-os4y.livejournal.com/6485.html

"Gearman provides a generic framework to farm out work to other machines or dispatch function calls to machines that are better suited to do the work. It allows you to do work in parallel, to load balance processing, and to call functions between languages. It can be used in a variety of applications, from high-availability web sites to the transport for database replication. In other words, it is the nervous system for how distributed processing communicates."

"The goal of Simple is to bring the power of simplicity to the world of server side Java. The primary focus of the project is to provide a truly embeddable Java based HTTP engine capable of handling enormous loads."

open source .mac clone

Marketing or actually "greener"? Hrm.

Supports Drupal and WordPress among others.

This is a toy in-memory (very much non-durable) queue, with a client and server in Python and a server in C++ -- the results of an evening's hacking with Facebook's Thrift protocol/RPC generator.

Nicolas Cage apparently promoting SQL Server 2008? strange world out there.

"a language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible way of serializing structured data for use in communications protocols, data storage, and more."

Augeas is a configuration editing tool. It parses configuration files in their native formats and transforms them into a tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this tree and saving it back into native config files.

a web cache system base on nginx web server. faster and more efficient than squid.

"The Log Validator combines a Server Log analysis engine with batch validation, link checking and other quality-oriented processing, for step-by-step improvement and maintenance of Web Site Quality."

Cometd is a scalable HTTP-based event routing bus that uses a push technology pattern known as Comet.

"Neat little Python module for daemonizing a process; handles logging and pid files out of the box."

"MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers."

"a reverse proxy load balancer and web server"

Lighttpd overview for Apache peeps

Uses GNUPlot for 3d rendering of large web server log datasets