Lwan Alternatives

Lwan is described as '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' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Lwan for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Lwan alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Lwan are Apache HTTP Server, Caddy, Ferron and lighttpd.

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  1. weborf icon

    weborf

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    Weborf is a lightweight webserver designed to rapidly share directories. Runs on POSIX systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) icon

    LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS)

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    LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is a high-performance Apache drop-in replacement. LSWS is the 4th most popular web server on the internet and the #1 commercial web server. Upgrading your web server to LiteSpeed Web Server will improve your performance and lower operating...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     

  4. H2O

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    An optimized HTTP server / library implementation that can be used either as a standalone server or a library. Supported Protocols:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. Windows Webserver icon

    Windows Webserver

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    Windows Webserver for PHP and CGI Scripts. Buildin PHP 8.0.8 with all extensions, mod_rewrite and internal FTPS/WebDAV-Server and DNS-Server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
    Windows Webserver screenshot 1
     
  6. Gunicorn icon

    Gunicorn

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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...

    42 Gunicorn alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  7. mini_httpd icon

    mini_httpd

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    A small HTTP server with SSL, directory listings, virtual hosting and CGI. It is available in Debian's and Ubuntu's repositories as package "mini-httpd" and on Alpine Linux as package "mini_httpd".

    41 mini_httpd alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. Nitro Server icon

    Nitro Server

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    Create web servers with everything you need and deploy them wherever you prefer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
    Nitro Server screenshot 1
     
  10. Uvicorn icon

    Uvicorn

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    An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄.

    42 Uvicorn alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
     
  11. Algernon icon

    Algernon

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    Small self-contained pure-Go web server with built-in support for Lua scripting, Markdown pages, Sass/GCSS, HTTP/2, QUIC, and accessing Redis and PostgreSQL.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Running Algernon (screenshot from an earlier version).
     
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