The Best 19 Baby Web Server Alternatives

  • Apache HTTP Server icon

    Apache HTTP Server

    Apache, is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web and in 2009 became the first web server to surpass the 100 million web site milestone.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

    Configurable Modules
  • 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

  • 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

  • VBServer icon

    VBServer

    Create a personal web server with simplicity, reliability, and ease using VBServer.

    Free Windows

  • 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

  • TrustLeap G-WAN Web Server icon

    TrustLeap G-WAN Web Server

    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...

    Free Windows Linux

  • Tinyweb icon

    Tinyweb

    TinyWeb is an extremely small (executable file size is 53K), simple (no configuration other than through the command line) and fast (consumes a minimum of system...

    Free Windows

  • devd icon

    devd

    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...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • UltiDev icon

    UltiDev

    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...

    Free Windows

  • LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) icon

    LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS)

    LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is a high-performance Apache drop-in replacement. LSWS is the 4th most popular web server on the internet and the #1 commercial web server....

    Commercial Linux

  • SimpleServer:WWW icon

    SimpleServer:WWW

    Ever wanted to set up a webserver so that you could have your friends check out a new page you're working on? Or maybe you'd just like to play around with HTML...

    Free Windows Self-Hosted

  • Wt icon

    Wt

    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...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Tntnet icon

    Tntnet

    Fast web server for high performance C++ web applications

    Free Open Source Linux BSD