Roxen Challenger is an open source web server, developed by Idonex, Sweden, and a big community of Roxen users on the net. It runs on most UNIX platforms as well as on Windows NT and offers all required features of a modern web server.

• Strong 128bit-encryption with SSL
• FTP server
• Proxy server
• Multithreaded
• CGI/FastCGI support
• Database APIs (MySQL, Postgres and commercial databases)

The big difference to other popular servers like Apache is its modularity and its rich set of useful tools. Roxen Challenger comes with a web based configuration interface which makes it easy to set up virtual servers and control their behaviour. It is easily possible to access databases to create dynamic content for your documents. On-the-fly creation of graphical text, thumbnails and diagrams is another strength.

Roxen Challenger is written in Pike, an interpreted object-oriented programming language with a C-like syntax. You can embed Pike code into your documents to create dynamic content. If you already have used PHP you will realize that this is a mighty feature.

The main advantage of Roxen Challenger is to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your website. It's not difficult to create a website with a constant layout and maintenance is very easy. The separation of layout and content will let you share the entire work between designers and authors.