nginx Alternatives

nginx is described as '("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server' and is a very popular Web Server in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to nginx for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Self-Hosted and BSD apps. The best nginx alternative is Apache HTTP Server, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like nginx are Caddy, Haproxy, Træfik Proxy and Ferron.

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  1. 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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  2.  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
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  3. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  4.  3 likes

    rwasa is a full-featured, high performance, scalable web server designed to compete with the likes of nginx. It has been built from the ground-up in x86_64 assembly language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5.  7 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
  6. mongrel2 icon
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    Mongrel2 is an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  7. Varnish icon
     24 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
  8. Nginx UI icon
     2 likes

    Nginx UI is a comprehensive web-based interface designed to simplify the management and configuration of Nginx single-node and cluster nodes. It offers real-time server statistics, Nginx performance monitoring, AI-powered ChatGPT assistance, the code editor that supports LLM...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenWrt
    • Docker
    • OpenBSD
    • DragonFly BSD
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  9. qaws icon
     1 like

    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...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Docker
    • BSD
    • Termux
    Good alternative?
     
  10. Mongoose icon
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Relianoid tools avoid single points of failure by distributing traffic, monitoring server health, and enabling seamless failover through stateful cluster service.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. Uvicorn icon
     1 like

    An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
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