Cherokee is described as 'Flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Cherokee for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best Cherokee alternative is XAMPP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cherokee are nginx, Apache HTTP Server, Caddy and Ferron.