freenginx Alternatives

freenginx is described as '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' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to freenginx for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Self-Hosted, Mac and BSD apps. The best freenginx alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like freenginx are Apache HTTP Server, Caddy, Ferron and Træfik Proxy.

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  1. D

    devd

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    Devd is a single statically compiled binary with no external dependencies, and is released for OSX, Linux and Windows. Don't want to install Node or Python in that light-weight Docker instance you're hacking in? Just copy over the devd binary and be done with it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Cherokee icon

    Cherokee

     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...

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    version 1.0.8, control panel.
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  4. Varnish icon

    Varnish

     24 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5. Microsoft IIS icon

    Microsoft IIS

     27 likes

    Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows® Server is a flexible, secure and easy-to-manage Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web application hosting, IIS’s scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.

    44 Microsoft IIS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    Gunicorn

     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
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  8. Uvicorn icon

    Uvicorn

     1 like

    An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄.

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    • Linux
    • Python
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  9. TinyWeb icon

    TinyWeb

     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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. 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

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
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    • European Union flagEU
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  11. Mongoose icon

    Mongoose

     18 likes

    Mongoose is easy to use web server. It also can be used as embedded web server library to provide web interface to applications.

    32 Mongoose alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Self-Hosted
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    • European Union flagEU
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  12. Abyss Webserver icon

    Abyss Webserver

     21 likes

    Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  13. LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) icon

    LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS)

     3 likes

    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
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    mini_httpd

     1 like

    A small HTTP server with SSL, directory listings, virtual hosting and CGI. It is available in Debian's and Ubuntu's repositories as package "mini-httpd" and on Alpine Linux as package "mini_httpd".

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
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