Microsoft IIS Alternatives

Apps similar to Microsoft IIS include nginx, which is free and open source. Other options are Apache HTTP Server, Caddy, Ferron and lighttpd. You're spoiled for choice with Web Servers like Microsoft IIS: we list more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac and self-hosting.

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  1. Cherokee icon
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    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 extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS...

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. qaws icon
     1 like

    qaws (Quick Arm Webserver) is a tiny, open-source, zero-dependency static file server written in Zig. It serves finished websites and assets at high throughput using native event backends, worker-local caching, keep-alive, pipelining, byte ranges, ETags, sendfile, and...

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • BSD
    • Termux
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  3. Uvicorn icon
     2 likes

    An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄.

    42 Uvicorn alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Python
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  4. CrushFTP icon
     2 likes

    CrushFTP is a robust file transfer server that makes it easy to setup secure connections with your users.

    31 CrushFTP alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  5. Gunicorn icon
     1 like

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  6. TinyWeb icon
     4 likes

    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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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. ProFTPD icon
     10 likes

    ProFTPD is a high-performance, extremely configurable, and most of all a secure FTP server, featuring Apache-like configuration and blazing performance.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. 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 costs

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  9. vsftpd icon
     16 likes

    Very secure FTP Daemon, a secure, fast FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. Reproxy icon
     2 likes

    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 (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Algernon icon
     1 like

    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.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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