Top 15 nginx Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

nginx [engine x] is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. It has been running for more than five years on many heavily loaded Russian sites including Rambler (RamblerMedia.com).

Basic HTTP server features

Serving static and index files, autoindexing; open file descriptor cache;
Accelerated reverse proxying with caching; simple load balancing and fault tolerance;
Accelerated support with caching of FastCGI, uwsgi, SCGI, and memcached servers; simple load balancing and fault tolerance;
Modular architecture. Filters include gzipping, byte ranges, chunked responses, XSLT, SSI, and image transformation filter. Multiple SSI inclusions within a single page can be processed in parallel if they are handled by proxied or FastCGI/uwsgi/SCGI servers;
SSL and TLS SNI support.
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1. Appweb

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. It has integrated caching and the ESP "C" Web framework. Without compromising performance, it has extensive security controls......

2. Thin

Thin Thin is a Ruby web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history: * the Mongrel parser, the root of Mongrel speed and security * Event Machine, a network I/O library with extremely high scalability, performance and stability * Rack, a minimal interface between webservers......

3. Hiawatha

Hiawatha Hiawatha, a secure and advanced webserver......

4. Cherokee

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. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS or OpenSSL), virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly......

5. lighttpd

lighttpd lighttpd (pronounced "lighty") is a web server designed to be secure, fast, standards-compliant, and flexible while being optimized for speed-critical environments. lighttpd supports load-balancing FastCGI, SCGI and HTTP proxy, SSL and TLS support via OpenSSL, authentication against an LDAP server, flexible virtual hosting, HTTP compression und much more. It is......

6. weborf

weborf Weborf is a lightweight webserver designed to rapidly share directories. Runs on POSIX systems.......

7. Apache HTTP Server

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. Apache was the first viable alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web server, and......

8. nanoweb

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

9. Caddy

Caddy Caddy is a web server like Apache, nginx, or lighttpd, but with different goals, features, and advantages.The goal of Caddy is to streamline an authentic web development, deployment, and hosting workflow so that anyone can host their own web sites without requiring special technical understanding.......

10. Apache Traffic Server

Apache Traffic Server Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation, and it is now an Apache TLP.CachingImprove your response time, while reducing server load and bandwidth needs by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages, images, and web service calls.ProxyingEasily add keep-alive, filter or anonymize content requests, or add load......

11. webfs

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. It is also nice to export some files the quick way by starting a HTTP server in a few seconds, without editing some config......

12. mongrel

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

13. WEBrick

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

14. SignalR

SignalR ASP.NET SignalR is a new library for ASP.NET developers that makes it incredibly simple to add real-time web functionality to your applications. What is "real-time web" functionality? It's the ability to have your server-side code push content to the connected clients as it happens, in real-time.......

15. mongrel2

mongrel2 Mongrel2 is an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.......