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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    rwasa is a full-featured, high performance, scalable web server designed to compete with the likes of nginx. It has been built from the ground-up in x86_64 assembly language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. Reproxy icon
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. mongrel2 icon
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    Mongrel2 is an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Nginx UI icon
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    Nginx UI is a comprehensive web-based interface designed to simplify the management and configuration of Nginx single-node and cluster nodes. It offers real-time server statistics, Nginx performance monitoring, AI-powered ChatGPT assistance, the code editor that supports LLM...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenWrt
    • Docker
    • OpenBSD
    • DragonFly BSD
     
  5. Mongoose icon
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    Mongoose is easy to use web server. It also can be used as embedded web server library to provide web interface to applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. CivetWeb icon
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    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
     
  7. TinyWeb icon
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Relianoid tools avoid single points of failure by distributing traffic, monitoring server health, and enabling seamless failover through stateful cluster service.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Relianoid ADC Load Balancer is the most popular Web-based & SaaS alternative to nginx.

    • Relianoid ADC Load Balancer is Freemium and Open Sourcenginx is Free and Open Source
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    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
     
  10. Algernon icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  11. freenginx icon
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    freenginx is an effort to preserve free and open development of nginx, an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server, originally written by Igor Sysoev.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12. ShimmerCat icon
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    A web server for web developers. It enables HTTPS and HTTP/2 from minute five!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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