nginx Alternatives

nginx is described as '[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 loaded Russian sites including Rambler (RamblerMedia.com)' and is a very popular Web Server in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to nginx for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best nginx alternative is Apache HTTP Server, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like nginx are Caddy, Træfik Proxy, Ferron and Haproxy.

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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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    Tornado Web Server Features

    1.  HTTP server

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  2. gobetween icon
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    Modern & minimalistic load balancer and router for the Cloud era.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    gobetween Features

    1. Docker icon  Support for Docker
    2.  TCP Proxy
    3.  Load balancing

    gobetween VS nginx

     
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    It's has really similar functionality

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    • gobetween is Free and Open Sourcenginx is also Free and Open Source
  3. Serva 32/64 icon
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    Serva is an Automated PXE Server Solution Accelerator based on an all-in-one portable multi-server engine including BINL(RIS/WDS), HTTP, FTP, TFTP, DHCP, proxyDHCP, DNS, SNTP and SYSLOG protocols.

    22 Serva 32/64 alternatives

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Serva 32/64 Features

    1.  PXE
    2.  PXE boot
    3.  DHCP Server
    4.  TFTP
    5.  HTTP server
    6.  Support for FTP
    7.  DNS Server

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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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    Discontinued

    The last commit to the GitHub repo was made on June 3rd, 2016.

    Appweb Features

    1.  HTTP server

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  5. 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...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Cherokee Features

    1.  HTTP server

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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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Command line interface

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  7. Varnish icon
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    Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art HTTP application accelerator.

    19 Varnish alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • SE flagSweden
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Varnish Features

    1.  Load balancing

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    G-WAN is the fastest available Web server on Windows and Linux.

    G-WAN is a small-footprint (under 200 KB) Web server with full ANSI-C scripts (that you just 'edit & play') which are as fast as static pages and which scale orders of magnitude better than ASP.Net C#, J.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    TrustLeap G-WAN Web Server Features

    1.  Support for scripting

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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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • BR flagBrazil

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Lwan Features

    1.  HTTP server

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    nuster is a high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy. It is 100% compatible with HAProxy, and takes full advantage of the ACL functionality of HAProxy to provide fine-grained caching policy based on the content of request, response...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD

    nuster Features

    1.  Load balancing
    2.  REST API

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  11. 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.

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    Abyss Webserver Features

    1.  HTTP server
    2.  SSL

    Abyss Webserver VS nginx

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

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • JP flagJapan

    Platforms

    • Linux

    H2O Features

    1.  HTTP server

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