Microsoft IIS Alternatives

Microsoft IIS is described as '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' and is a Web Server in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Microsoft IIS for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Microsoft IIS alternative is nginx, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Microsoft IIS are Apache HTTP Server, Caddy, Ferron and FileZilla Server.

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  1. 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

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2. qaws icon
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    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...

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    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • BSD
    • Termux
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  3. CrushFTP icon
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    CrushFTP is a robust file transfer server that makes it easy to setup secure connections with your users.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

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

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    • Linux
    • Python
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  6. TinyWeb icon
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    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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  7. ProFTPD icon
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    ProFTPD is a high-performance, extremely configurable, and most of all a secure FTP server, featuring Apache-like configuration and blazing performance.

    21 ProFTPD alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. Abyss Webserver icon
     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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  9. 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

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10. vsftpd icon
     16 likes

    Very secure FTP Daemon, a secure, fast FTP server for UNIX systems, including Linux.

    44 vsftpd alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  11. Reproxy icon
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    Reproxy is a simple edge HTTP(s) server / reverse proxy supporting various providers (docker, static, file). One or more providers supply information about the requested server, requested url, destination URL, and health check url.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  12. Algernon icon
     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.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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