378 Like Apache HTTP Server Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
205 Like nginx Good alternative? YES NO nginx [engine x] is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. It has been running for more than five years on many heavily... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Load balancing Modular System Add a feature
22 Like Caddy Good alternative? YES NO Caddy makes web development faster, easier, and more productive for busy people with busy websites. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Android BSD FreeBSD OpenBSD Support for Let's Encrypt Modular System Add a feature
20 Like Microsoft IIS Good alternative? YES NO Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows® Server is a flexible, secure and easy-to-manage Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to... Commercial Windows No features added Add a feature
12 Like Mongoose Good alternative? YES NO Mongoose is easy to use web server. It also can be used as embedded web server library to provide web interface to applications. Technical Specs: * Cross... Free Personal Mac Windows Linux Android iPhone Self-Hosted No features added Add a feature
22 Like Cherokee Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
15 Like Abyss Webserver Good alternative? YES NO Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. Despite its small footprint, it supports HTTP/1.1... Freemium Mac Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
14 Like Hiawatha Good alternative? YES NO Hiawatha, a secure and advanced webserver Free Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted No features added Add a feature
7 Like SimpleHTTPServer Good alternative? YES NO python -m SimpleHTTPServer python3 -m http.server 8000 Documentation for python3 version: https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted No features added Add a feature
10 Like Tornado Web Server Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Linux No features added Add a feature
2 Like devd Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
4 Like httpd Good alternative? YES NO Project Goals The efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. * Lean: Provide a small and monolithic... Free Open Source BSD OpenBSD No features added Add a feature
6 Like webfs Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD Self-Hosted No features added Add a feature
8 Like Appweb Good alternative? YES NO Embedthis Appweb is a fast, compact embedded Web server. It is unmatched in efficiency and serves pages at native speed, using an event-driven, non-blocking core to... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted No features added Add a feature Discontinued The last commit to the GitHub repo was made on June 3rd, 2016.
6 Like mongrel Good alternative? YES NO A small fast HTTP library and server that runs Rails, Camping, Nitro and Iowa apps. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Self-Hosted No features added Add a feature
