Surfer Alternatives

Surfer is described as 'Simple static file server. It comes with a commandline tool to upload files from your local folders and a webinterface to manage files directly on the server' and is an app in the backup & sync category. There are seven alternatives to Surfer for Mac, Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted solutions and BSD. The best alternative is Tornado Web Server, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Surfer are Simple HTTP Server, SimpleHTTPServer, webfs and nanoweb.

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Surfer

Free • Open Source

Linux
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Tornado Web Server
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Linux
30 alternatives to Tornado Web Server
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.
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Simple HTTP Server
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Free • Open Source
Mac
27 alternatives to Simple HTTP Server
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.
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SimpleHTTPServer
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Free • Open Source
Web Server
Mac
Windows
Linux
Self-Hosted
27 alternatives to SimpleHTTPServer
Serve a single directory over HTTP.

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webfs
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Free • Open Source
Web Server
Mac
Linux
BSD
Self-Hosted
23 alternatives to webfs
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.
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Discontinued
The last snapshot is from 2008. See http://dl.bytesex.org/cvs-snapshots/
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nanoweb
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Free • Open Source
Web Server
Mac
Windows
Linux
Self-Hosted
25 alternatives to nanoweb
Nanoweb is an HTTP server written in PHP, designed to be small, secure, and extensible.
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TinyWeb
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Free • Open Source
Web Server
Windows
39 alternatives to TinyWeb
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.
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SimpleServer:WWW
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Free • Proprietary
Web Server
Windows
Self-Hosted
34 alternatives to SimpleServer:WWW
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...

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