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, Træfik Proxy, Ferron and Haproxy.

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    webfs

     6 likes

    webfs is a simple HTTP server for mostly static content. You can use it to serve the content of a FTP server via HTTP for example. It is also nice to export some files the quick way by starting a HTTP server in a few seconds, without editing some config file first.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    nanoweb

     4 likes

    Nanoweb is an HTTP server written in PHP, designed to be small, secure, and extensible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    mini_httpd

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    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
     
  5. thttpd icon

    thttpd

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    thttpd is a simple, small, portable, fast, and secure HTTP server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. Windows Webserver icon

    Windows Webserver

     2 likes

    Windows Webserver for PHP and CGI Scripts. Buildin PHP 8.0.8 with all extensions, mod_rewrite and internal FTPS/WebDAV-Server and DNS-Server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
    Windows Webserver screenshot 1
     
  7. OutboundGateway icon

    OutboundGateway

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    Static EU IPs for Kubernetes, containers, and AI agents. Route traffic securely with TLS passthrough, dedicated EU IPs, and ensure EU data residency compliance.

    2 OutboundGateway alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    OutboundGateway screenshot 1
     
  9. Uvicorn icon

    Uvicorn

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    An ASGI web server, for Python. 🦄.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Python
     
  10. Millau icon

    Millau

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    Millau is a free ingress proxy and load balancer designed for microservice architectures built on Docker Swarm.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    Setup
     
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    Gunicorn

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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
     
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    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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    SimpleHTTPServer

     7 likes

    Serve a single directory over HTTP.

    42 SimpleHTTPServer alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Simple HTTP Server

     2 likes

    Need to share some files with your colleagues or setup basic html website on your machine? It's very simple with Simple HTTP Server. Just click 'Start server' and choose a folder to share. The url already in your clipboard.

    76 Simple HTTP Server alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
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