Surfer - Static File Server Alternatives

Surfer - Static File Server is described as 'Surfer is a Simple static file server. It comes with a command-line tool to upload files from your local folders and a web interface to manage files directly on the server' and is an app in the backup & sync category. There are nine alternatives to Surfer - Static File Server for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Self-Hosted, Windows and Python apps. The best Surfer - Static File Server alternative is TinyWeb, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Surfer - Static File Server are Tornado Web Server, SimpleHTTPServer, webfs and nanoweb.

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  1. TinyWeb icon
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    TinyWeb is an extremely small (< 100K), simple (no configuration other than through the command line) and lightweight (consumes a minimum of system resources) Web server for Windows. It supports CGI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • TinyWeb is the most popular Windows alternative to Surfer - Static File Server.

    • TinyWeb is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Surfer - Static File Server.

    • TinyWeb is Free and Open SourceSurfer - Static File Server is also Free and Open Source
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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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
    • Tornado Web Server is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Surfer - Static File Server.

    • Tornado Web Server is Free and Open SourceSurfer - Static File Server is also Free and Open Source
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    Serve a single directory over HTTP.

    42 SimpleHTTPServer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • SimpleHTTPServer is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Surfer - Static File Server.

    • SimpleHTTPServer is Free and Open SourceSurfer - Static File Server is also Free and Open Source
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    webfs is a simple HTTP server for mostly static content. You can use it to serve the content of a FTP server via HTTP for example. It is also nice to export some files the quick way by starting a HTTP server in a few seconds, without editing some config file first.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. nanoweb icon
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    Nanoweb is an HTTP server written in PHP, designed to be small, secure, and extensible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Ever wanted to set up a webserver so that you could have your friends check out a new page you're working on? Or maybe you'd just like to play around with HTML, and need to have a local webserver to get a good feel...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Need to share some files with your colleagues or setup basic html website on your machine? It's very simple with Simple HTTP Server. Just click 'Start server' and choose a folder to share. The url already in your clipboard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Uvicorn icon
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    An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄.

    42 Uvicorn alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
     
  9. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
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