Algernon Alternatives

Algernon is described as 'Small self-contained pure-Go web server with built-in support for Lua scripting, Markdown pages, Sass/GCSS, HTTP/2, QUIC, and accessing Redis and PostgreSQL' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Algernon for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best Algernon alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Algernon are Apache HTTP Server, Caddy, Ferron and CivetWeb.

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  1. Cherokee icon
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    Cherokee is a 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...

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  2. Serve a single directory over HTTP.

    42 SimpleHTTPServer alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  3. weborf icon
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    Weborf is a lightweight webserver designed to rapidly share directories. Runs on POSIX systems.

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  4. It's a portable server manager that you can go anywhere, anytime, in any computer and run your webapp. Quick and easy to configure, a really useful application for your portable apps kit.

    47 Portable Webserver alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    An optimized HTTP server / library implementation that can be used either as a standalone server or a library. Supported Protocols:

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  6. Windows Webserver for PHP and CGI Scripts. Buildin PHP 8.0.8 with all extensions, mod_rewrite and internal FTPS/WebDAV-Server and DNS-Server.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Wine
     
  7. Uvicorn icon
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    An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄.

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    • Linux
    • Python
     
  8. A small HTTP server with SSL, directory listings, virtual hosting and CGI. It is available in Debian's and Ubuntu's repositories as package "mini-httpd" and on Alpine Linux as package "mini_httpd".

    41 mini_httpd alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  9.  Like

    Lwan is a high-performance web server with a low disk and memory footprint. It can serve both static content and dynamic content generated by C or Lua code.

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    • Linux
     
  10. Gunicorn icon
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    Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resource usage, and fairly...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
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