Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- JavaScript
- Typescript
France
EU

Apps similar to Mongoose include nginx, which is free and open source. Other options are Apache HTTP Server, Caddy, Ferron and BunkerWeb. Web Servers like Mongoose are a crowded field, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, self-hosting, Windows and Mac.

Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems.




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".
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.




Compact web and app server featuring Lua scripting, built-in app framework, SQLite database, async sockets, WebSocket support, SMTP, MQTT, OPC-UA, Modbus, SMQ broker, automated Let's Encrypt TLS, and instant start on multiple operating systems.

Angie is an efficient, powerful and scalable web server, that was forked from nginx by some of its former core devs, with intention to extend functionality far beyond original version.
MicroApache - A Portable Apache Server for Windows
"This is a microscopic and very-heavily trimmed-down version of the standard, Apache server; made available under the Apache GPL licence. It was developed initially for fun to meet a FloppyWeb Challenge to run Apache from a.