unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels. Slow clients should only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully buffering both the the request and response in between unicorn and slow clients.

unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels. Slow clients should only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully buffering both the the request and response in between unicorn and slow clients.

A Free Software, multi-threaded, non-blocking network application server designed for low _idle_ power consumption. It is primarily optimized for applications with occasional users which see little or no traffic. yahns currently hosts Rack/HTTP applications, but may eventually support other application types. Unlike some existing servers, yahns is extremely sensitive to fatal bugs in the applications it hosts.