Thin AlternativesWeb Servers and other similar apps like Thin

Thin is described as 'Ruby web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history:' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Thin for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best Thin alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Thin are Apache HTTP Server, DevBind, lighttpd and CivetWeb.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Get a badge for your siteThin alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. nginx icon
     336 likes

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

    63 nginx alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. Open-source HTTP server featuring modular architecture, cross-platform support for Linux and Windows, secure configuration options, robust performance, support for dynamic and static content, authentication, URL rewriting, and comprehensive community-driven development.

    58 Apache HTTP Server alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. DevBind icon
     1 like

    High-performance local development reverse proxy in Rust with automatic HTTPS. Map .test domains to dev ports instantly. Zero-config SSL for a friction-less workflow.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. lighttpd icon
     61 likes

    lighttpd (pronounced "lighty") is a web server designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. CivetWeb icon
     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
     
  6. freenginx icon
     2 likes

    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
     
  7. Cherokee icon
     24 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
     
  8. qaws icon
     1 like

    qaws (Quick Arm Webserver) is a tiny, open-source, zero-dependency static file server written in Zig. It serves finished websites and assets at high throughput using native event backends, worker-local caching, keep-alive, pipelining, byte ranges, ETags, sendfile, and...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • BSD
    • Termux
     
  9. Uvicorn icon
     1 like

    An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
     
  10. Gunicorn icon
     1 like

    Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resource usage, and fairly...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  11. TinyWeb icon
     4 likes

    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
     
  12. LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is a high-performance Apache drop-in replacement. LSWS is the 4th most popular web server on the internet and the #1 commercial web server. Upgrading your web server to LiteSpeed Web Server will improve your performance and lower operating...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
12 of 27 Thin alternatives