The Best 47 nginx 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
  • 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
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    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

  • WnMp icon

    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
  • Varnish icon

    Varnish

    Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art HTTP application accelerator. You can install it on your HTTP server and it makes your application more accessible.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • 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

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    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

  • Haproxy icon

    Haproxy

    HAProxy is free, open source software that provides a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based applications that spreads requests across multiple servers.

    Free Open Source Linux BSD

  • Træfik icon

    Træfik

    Træfik is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends (Docker, Swarm, Mesos/Marathon, Consul, Etcd, Zookeeper, etc.

    Free Open Source Linux

    Support for Docker High Availability
  • 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

  • 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