Monkey is a small, fast and lightweight open source Web Server for GNU/Linux. It has been designed with focus in embedded devices, therefore its scalable by nature having a low memory and CPU consumption and an excellent performance.
Monkey is properly supported on ARM, x86 and x64, being able to work in any architecture and device capable to run a Linux Kernel.
Due to its diet the golden monkey prefers a habitat with abundant fruit and bamboo. The golden monkey will move in between areas depending on the season. During the season where ripe fruit is available they will remain in those areas.
October 15th, 2013
This new version called Golden Monkey, brings exciting core and performance improvements, as well a set of generic fixes for plugins such as SSL, CGI, FastCGI, Auth and Logger.
For more details about the changes, please refer to the Announcements Page .
More than a simple web server, Monkey is a complete event-driven HTTP framework. It have been designed as a small core capable to extend it behavior through the plugin interface. Having as a main focus Embedded Linux environments, it optimize resources usage with low memory and CPU consumption.