Lwan Alternatives

Lwan is described as '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' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Lwan for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Lwan alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Lwan are Apache HTTP Server, Caddy, Ferron and CivetWeb.

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  1. 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...

    53 LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. Cherokee icon
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    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. Serve a single directory over HTTP.

    42 SimpleHTTPServer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. weborf icon
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    Weborf is a lightweight webserver designed to rapidly share directories. Runs on POSIX systems.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5.  1 like

    An optimized HTTP server / library implementation that can be used either as a standalone server or a library. Supported Protocols:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. Gunicorn icon
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    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...

    42 Gunicorn alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  7. 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
     
  8. Uvicorn icon
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    An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
     
  9. Algernon icon
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    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.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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