The Best 50 Apache HTTP Server Alternatives

  • Serva 32/64 icon

    Serva 32/64

    Serva is an Automated PXE Server Solution Accelerator based on an all-in-one portable multi-server engine including BINL(RIS/WDS), HTTP, FTP, TFTP, DHCP, proxyDHCP, DNS, SNTP and SYSLOG protocols.

    Freemium Windows Windows RT

    Support for FTP PXE TFTP
  • lighttpd icon

    lighttpd

    lighttpd (pronounced "lighty") is a web server designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Microsoft IIS icon

    Microsoft IIS

    Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows® Server is a flexible, secure and easy-to-manage Web server for hosting anything on the Web.

    Commercial Windows

  • Cherokee icon

    Cherokee

    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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD

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    WnMp

    Windows+Nginx+MariaDB+PHP WnMp can serve as an up to date LAMP(Linux,Apache,MySQL,PHP) like server with more focus on Current technologies and also a great clean training Environment for Web Development and Maybe in the future it can...

    Free Open Source Windows Self-Hosted

    MariaDB Nginx
  • Abyss Webserver icon

    Abyss Webserver

    Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. Despite its small footprint, it supports HTTP/1.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

  • Hiawatha icon

    Hiawatha

    Hiawatha, a secure and advanced webserver

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • Tornado Web Server icon

    Tornado Web Server

    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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • Appweb icon

    Appweb

    Embedthis Appweb is a fast, compact embedded Web server. It is unmatched in efficiency and serves pages at native speed, using an event-driven, non-blocking core to serve multiple requests using minimal resources.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • Winginx icon

    Winginx

    Winginx is a complex of local web server on Windows (Vista and higher) to develop in PHP and Node.js using databases MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, memcached.

    Free Windows

  • mongrel icon

    mongrel

    A small fast HTTP library and server that runs Rails, Camping, Nitro and Iowa apps.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • webfs icon

    webfs

    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.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux BSD Self-Hosted

  • gatling icon

    gatling

    A high performance web server. Small! (125k static Linux-x86 binary with HTTP, FTP and SMB support). Fast! (measure for yourself, please) Scalable!

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Portable Webserver icon

    Portable Webserver

    It's a portable server manager that you can go anywhere, anytime, in any computer and run your webapp. Quick and easy to configure, a really useful application for your portable apps kit.

    Free Windows Self-Hosted

    Portable USB to FAT
  • nanoweb icon

    nanoweb

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

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • WEBrick icon

    WEBrick

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

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted