nginx Alternatives

nginx is described as '("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server' 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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  1. gobetween icon

    gobetween

     7 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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
  2. Tornado Web Server icon

    Tornado Web Server

     11 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  4. CivetWeb icon

    CivetWeb

     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Nitro Server icon

    Nitro Server

     1 like

    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
     
  6. Serva 32/64 icon

    Serva 32/64

     103 likes

    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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Serva 32/64 screenshot 1
     
  7. Appweb icon

    Appweb

     8 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    Appweb screenshot 1
     
  9. Cherokee icon

    Cherokee

     23 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    version 1.0.8, control panel.
     
  10. TrustLeap G-WAN Web Server icon

    TrustLeap G-WAN Web Server

     3 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Linux and Windows Benchmarks
     
  11. L

    Lwan

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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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. N

    nuster

     1 like

    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  14. Varnish icon

    Varnish

     24 likes

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

    21 Varnish alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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