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


Rwasa is described as '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' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are five alternatives to Rwasa for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Rwasa alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Rwasa are CivetWeb, lighttpd, freenginx and Cherokee.
nginx ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server.


CivetWeb is an easy to use, powerful, C/C++ embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support.
lighttpd (pronounced "lighty") is a web server designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments.

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...

