H2O Alternatives

H2O is described as 'An optimized HTTP server / library implementation that can be used either as a standalone server or a library. Supported Protocols:' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to H2O for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Self-Hosted, Mac and BSD apps. The best H2O alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like H2O are Apache HTTP Server, Caddy, Ferron and BunkerWeb.

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  1. 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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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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    Mongoose screenshot 1
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  2. Algernon icon

    Algernon

     1 like

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • NO flagNorway
    Running Algernon (screenshot from an earlier version).
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  4. SimpleHTTPServer icon

    SimpleHTTPServer

     7 likes

    Serve a single directory over HTTP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  5. Angie icon

    Angie

     1 like

    Angie is an efficient, powerful and scalable web server, that was forked from nginx by some of its former core devs, with intention to extend functionality far beyond original version.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • Debian
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  6. G

    gatling

     5 likes

    A high performance web server. Small! (125k static Linux-x86 binary with HTTP, FTP and SMB support). Fast! (measure for yourself, please) Scalable!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  8. TrustLeap G-WAN Web Server icon

    TrustLeap G-WAN Web Server

     3 likes

    G-WAN is the fastest available Web server on Windows and Linux.

    G-WAN is a small-footprint (under 200 KB) Web server with full ANSI-C scripts (that you just 'edit & play') which are as fast as static pages and which scale orders of magnitude better than ASP.Net C#, J.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    Linux and Windows Benchmarks
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  9. L

    Lwan

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    Lwan is a high-performance web server with a low disk and memory footprint. It can serve both static content and dynamic content generated by C or Lua code.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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