lighttpd Alternatives

lighttpd is described as '(pronounced "lighty") is a web server designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments' and is a popular Web Server in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to lighttpd for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best lighttpd alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like lighttpd are Apache HTTP Server, Caddy, Ferron and BunkerWeb.

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  1. Mongoose icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    rwasa is a full-featured, high performance, scalable web server designed to compete with the likes of nginx. It has been built from the ground-up in x86_64 assembly language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Appweb icon
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    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 serve multiple requests using minimal resources. It has integrated caching and the ESP "C" Web framework.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. Wt icon
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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
     
  7. Abyss Webserver icon
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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
     
  8.  5 likes
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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • BSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  9. 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
     
  10. Reproxy icon
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    Reproxy is a simple edge HTTP(s) server / reverse proxy supporting various providers (docker, static, file). One or more providers supply information about the requested server, requested url, destination URL, and health check url.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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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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