Cherokee is an open-source cross-platform web server that runs on Linux, BSD variants, Solaris, OS X, and Windows.

Major features of Cherokee include a graphical administration interface named cherokee-admin, and a modular light-weight design.

Cherokee is maintained and developed by an open source community.

These provide support for: PHP through FastCGI, Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion, GlassFish, Django, Alfresco, GNU Mailman, .NET with Mono, rTorrent, Symfony, and Zend Engine, plus generic Video Streaming and uWSGI.

[14] During the last few years Cherokee has been adopted by numerous electronic device makes and IoT technology manufacturers.