Top 15 OpenLiteSpeed Alternative and Similar Softwares | May 2024

OpenLiteSpeed is a high-performance, lightweight, open source HTTP server developed and copyrighted by LiteSpeed Technologies. Users are free to download, use, distribute, and modify OpenLiteSpeed and its source code in accordance with the precepts of the GPLv3 license.
Why Use OpenLiteSpeed?
High performance, event-driven architecture
Super light-weight, minimal CPU and memory footprint
Apache-compatible rewrite rules
User friendly WebAdmin GUI

1. Rwasa

Rwasa Rwasa is a full-featured, high performance, scalable web server designed to compete with the likes of nginx. It has been built from the ground-up with no externel library dependencies entirely in x86_64 assembly language, and is the result of many years' experience with high volume web environments. In addition......

2. Hiawatha

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

3. Rapache

Rapache Rapache is a python + GTK tool that allows you to configure apache2 and all of its modules.GPL'd, Its goal is to provide the user with a simple interface to facilitate the work to those who want to set up a web-server in a few clicks.Currently Rapache stopped working for......

4. GoAhead

GoAhead Embedthis GoAhead™ is one of the world’s most popular embedded web server deployed for over 15 years in hundreds of millions of devices by industry leaders and startups. It is compact and requires less than 150K RAM. GoAhead uses an event-driven, non-blocking core to efficiently operate with minimal resources. Coupled......

5. Pagekite

Pagekite Bring your localhost servers on-line.PageKite is software that gives your localhost servers names and makes them globally visible. It works with any computer and any Internet connection.It's so easy you'll never want to think about routers, IP addresses or other technicalities again. It's open source, too!......

6. 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......

7. 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......

8. Abyss Webserver

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/1.1, secure SSL/TLS connections (HTTPS), on-the-fly HTTP compression, dynamic content generation through CGI/FastCGI scripts, ISAPI extensions, native ASP.NET support, eXtended Side Includes (XSSI), custom error pages,......

9. Tinyweb

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 resources) Win32 daemon for regular (TCP/http) and secure (SSL/TLS/https) web-servers.......

10. gatling

gatling A high performance web server. Small! (125k static Linux-x86 binary with HTTP, FTP and SMB support). Fast! (measure for yourself, please) Scalable!......

11. 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.......

12. 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......

13. nginx

nginx 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......

14. 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......

15. nanoweb

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