Surfer - Static File Server AlternativesWeb Servers and other similar apps like Surfer - Static File Server

Apps similar to Surfer - Static File Server include Uvicorn, which is free and open source. Other options are Gunicorn, TinyWeb, Tornado Web Server and SimpleHTTPServer. In total there are eight Web Servers like Surfer - Static File Server for Linux, Mac, self-hosting and Windows.

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  1. Uvicorn icon
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    An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄.

    42 Uvicorn alternatives

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    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
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  2. 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...

    41 Gunicorn alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  3. 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

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    Since

    • Since 2011

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. 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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    • Since 2011

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  5. Serve a single directory over HTTP.

    42 SimpleHTTPServer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Since 2010

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  6.  6 likes

    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

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    Since

    • Since 2010

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. 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

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. 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

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Platforms

    • Mac
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