The Best 33 lighttpd 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
  • 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

  • Mongoose icon

    Mongoose

    Mongoose is easy to use web server. It also can be used as embedded web server library to provide web interface to applications.

    Free Personal Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone 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

  • 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

  • VBServer icon

    VBServer

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

    Free Windows

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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