About
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.
Spider monkeys of the genus Ateles are New World monkeys in the subfamily Atelinae, family Atelidae. Like other atelines, they are found in tropical forests of Central and South America, from southern Mexico to Brazil.
Monkey v1.4: Release notes
February 03th, 2014
This new version called Spider Monkey, brings exciting core and performance improvements such as new memory allocator, Linux Trace Tool kit support (LTTNG), experimental proxy reverse plugin, shared file descriptors and others.
For more details about the changes, please refer to the Announcements Page
Design goals and Vision
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.