Why Railo Server's great

We all think Railo Server's great... and hopefully you will too. Don't just take our word for it though. Join our community of Railo Server developers and administrators to learn more at any time - see the section How to get help to find out more.

Free and open-source

It's free to use, and open source. Whether you're working on a small personal project or a massive corporate business, you can benefit from Railo Server's low cost of ownership. Better yet, if you're not happy with the way Railo Server works, or need to incorporate specific functionality, you can change it!

Railo Server is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1.

Stable future

There's no need to worry that Railo may disappear any time soon - investment from leading software houses, in the US & Europe, means that Railo's future is assured for the foreseeable future.

Read more about this in the press announcement by Railo's CEO, Gert Franz.

Fast

Performance is at the heart of what we do. Railo has built the highest performing CFML engine available, so if you want to get more out of your servers and deliver a better experience to end-users of your sites, you owe it to yourself to try out Railo Server.

Quick to prototype

Railo server uses CFML & CFScript - the familiar tag-based language & its scripted counterpart - meaning that you can prototype applications really quickly. Whether you're from a tag or script background, you can produce code in the way that suits you best.

Robust deployment

Some development tools are great for development... but Railo Server's all about stability. It's robust Java-based architecture means that you can have the confidence to deploy mission-critical applications and know they're just going to work.

Cross-platform

Deploy on to a variety of local and cloud platforms - including Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk services. Because Railo's built with Java, you can deploy to your Java platform of choice.

And to get started, there's no need even to install Railo. You can download our standalone version and be up and running in minutes.

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