nginx Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   NightShift

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   Pre-load Netflix in advance so you can watch your favorite shows without interruption and always in full HD.

   Cost / License

   • Paid
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • Canada

   Platforms

   • Online

   

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   Tntnet

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   Fast web server for high performance C++ web applications.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Web Server

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • BSD

   

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   Thin

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   Thin is a Ruby web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history:

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Web Server

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Self-Hosted

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   WEBrick

    4 likes

   WEBrick is a Ruby library providing simple HTTP web server services.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Web Server

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Self-Hosted

   W

   

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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

   • Web Server

   Origin

   • Germany
   • EU

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Self-Hosted

   W

   

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   thttpd

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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Web Server

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Self-Hosted

   

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   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.

   61 Windows Webserver alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Web Server

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Wine

   

   

   

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)

    • United States

    

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    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

    • Load Balancer

    Origin

    • Germany
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker

    • Germany
    • EU

    

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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

    • Web Server

    Platforms

    • Linux

    G

    

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    SimpleHTTPServer

     7 likes

    Serve a single directory over HTTP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Web Server

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted

    

    Good alternative?Is SimpleHTTPServer a good alternative to nginx?

     
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac

    

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