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- Windows
- Linux
Apps similar to nginx include Apache HTTP Server, which is free and open source. Other options are Caddy, Træfik Proxy, Ferron and Haproxy. Web Servers like nginx are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac, self-hosting and the web.
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...


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.
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.
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.




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.

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.


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.
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...
CivetWeb is an easy to use, powerful, C/C++ embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support.