CivetWeb Alternatives

CivetWeb is described as 'Easy to use, powerful, C/C++ embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to CivetWeb for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best CivetWeb alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CivetWeb are Apache HTTP Server, Caddy, Ferron and Træfik Proxy.

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mongrel2
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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
Web Server
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Linux
Self-Hosted
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nuster
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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
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HtmlSpeed
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Html-Speed is a reverse proxy written in Java. It is used for accelerating performance of websites by improving page load speed and reducing load on webservers. This is achieved by applying unique front-end optimizations.
Cost / License
Free
Open Source
Alerts
Discontinued
Platforms
Windows
Linux
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