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. Wt icon
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    Wt (pronounced as witty) is a C++ library for developing web applications.

    The API is widget-centric and uses well-tested patterns of desktop GUI development tailored to the web. To the developer, it offers abstraction of many web-specific implementation details, including clien.

    31 Wt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. This Baby FTP server has only the most necessary features and is yet powerful enough to be a basis for a more complex server.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server. The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably fast.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  4. Syncplify Server! is an FTP, FTPS, SFTP, and HTTPS server for Windows and Linux by Syncplify, Inc.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. ZEVENET icon
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    Our products are based under the unique terms of no limitations and no vendor lock-in technology in order to provide the best performance, high support level directly from the vendor, development agility in order to be integrated with any application or infrastructure and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. Xlight FTP Server is a high performance and easy to use ftp server software for Windows. It is designed to handle thousands of simultaneous ftp clients and use very little CPU and memory.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Serve a single directory over HTTP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  8. delivers quick, easy, and reliable file transfer for your organization. You can exchange sensitive files with your trading partners using secure FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS) over both IPv4 and IPv6 networks.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9.  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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  10. 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
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  11. UltiDev icon
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    UltiDev Web Server Pro (UWS), also known as UltiDev Cassini Pro, is an an advanced, redistributable web server that can be use as a regular web server to host web sites and ASP.NET applications, or packaged with your web application and installed on your customers' systems...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. This program was build as an alternative for Microsoft IIS . The main goal was to design a simple web server with support for ASP. Setting up Baby ASP Web Server is very easy: copy the executable to a directory of your choice, set the directory...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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