The Best 12 Mongoose Alternatives

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • MicroApache

    MicroApache - A Portable Apache Server for Windows "This is a microscopic and very-heavily trimmed-down version of the standard, Apache server; made available...

    Free Open Source Windows Self-Hosted

  • 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

  • Mako Server

    The Mako Server is an application server with an API that loosely resembles the Java Servlet API, but where server side web applications are designed in the Lua...

    Free Personal Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Lwan

    Lwan is a high-performance web server with a low disk and memory footprint. It can serve both static content and dynamic content generated by C or Lua code.

    Free Open Source Linux