Apache HTTP Server Alternatives

Apache HTTP Server is described as 'Apache, is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web and in 2009 became the first web server to surpass the 100 million web site milestone. Apache was the first viable alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web' and is a very popular Web Server in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Apache HTTP Server for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best Apache HTTP Server alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Apache HTTP Server are Caddy, Ferron, BunkerWeb and lighttpd.

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    Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server. The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably fast.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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    programming library containng a web server functionality

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    • Tornado Web Server is Free and Open SourceApache HTTP Server is also Free and Open Source
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Project Goals

    The efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography.

    • Lean: Provide a small and monolithic architecture that supports the main standards and most important features of the web. Extensibility will never be.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • BSD
    • OpenBSD
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    G-WAN is the fastest available Web server on Windows and Linux.

    G-WAN is a small-footprint (under 200 KB) Web server with full ANSI-C scripts (that you just 'edit & play') which are as fast as static pages and which scale orders of magnitude better than ASP.Net C#, J.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Mongoose is easy to use web server. It also can be used as embedded web server library to provide web interface to applications.

    33 Mongoose alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Wt (pronounced as witty) is a C++ library for developing web applications.

    The API is widget-centric and uses well-tested patterns of desktop GUI development tailored to the web. To the developer, it offers abstraction of many web-specific implementation details, including clien.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Devd is a single statically compiled binary with no external dependencies, and is released for OSX, Linux and Windows. Don't want to install Node or Python in that light-weight Docker instance you're hacking in? Just copy over the devd binary and be done with it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Serva 32/64 icon
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    Serva is an Automated PXE Server Solution Accelerator based on an all-in-one portable multi-server engine including BINL(RIS/WDS), HTTP, FTP, TFTP, DHCP, proxyDHCP, DNS, SNTP and SYSLOG protocols.

    22 Serva 32/64 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    To get all similiar features to Apache, a Premium (paid) version is required

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    Small self-contained fast and with support to virtually every scripting language and web framework available today

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Abyss Webserver is Freemium and ProprietaryApache HTTP Server is Free and Open Source
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    Winginx is a complex of local web server on Windows (Vista and higher) to develop in PHP and Node.js using databases MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, memcached.

    34 Winginx alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    WPN-XM - is a free and open-source web server solution stack for professional PHP development on the Windows platform.

    36 WPN-XM alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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