Cherokee 号称是目前最快的 Web 服务器软件，在性能上，甚至比 Nginx 还略胜一筹。与 ">Apache、Lighttpd、Nginx 等其他同类软件的对比，大家不妨看看这个测试页面。其易用性做得也很不错。
Cherokee 的功能包括支持 FastCGI、SCGI、PHP、CGI、TLS 及 SSL 加密连接，虚拟主机，授权认证，实时编码，载入均衡，与 Apache 兼容的 log 文件等等。
Cherokee 内含一个名为 cherokee-admin 的工具，执行后，允许管理员直接通过浏览器进入 http://localhost:9090/ 对其进行管理和配置。比如，开启或关闭服务器，进行一般选项的设定，配置虚拟服务器、信息源、图标、Mime 类型等项目。
Cherokee is a very fast, flexible and easy to configure Web Server. It supports the widespread technologies nowadays: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, Virtual hosts, Authentication, on the fly encoding, Apache compatible log files, HTTP Load Balancing, Data Base Balancing, SSI, Reverse HTTP Proxy, Bandwidth Shaping, Audio and Video Streaming, uWSGI, and much more.
Cherokee also provides an easy to use configuration interface that allows to configure the server from top to bottom without having to edit a text configuration file, and can even automatically deploy web applications in a matter of seconds.
Please visit the Cherokee Web Server site for more information.
更新日志：
* FIX: A few usability issue were fixed (admin)
* UPD: Cookbooks have been updated (doc)
下载地址：
A tarball file is already available for you to download:
http://www.cherokee-project.com/download/1.2/1.2.1/cherokee-1.2.1.tar.gz
* MD5: 2204b9da5b910a8fe251f5dee4506155
* SHA1: 982bc99e966218661abd562d604aea32923bfde9
A MacOS X binary package is available for Intel based Macs at:
http://www.cherokee-project.com/download/1.2/1.2.1/MacOSX/Cherokee-1.2.1.dmg