The main function of a web server is to display website content through storing, processing and delivering webpages to users. Here’s our verdict on the best free and open source web servers.
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Tag: web server
rwasa is a full-featured high performance web server
rwasa is billed as a full-featured, high performance, scalable web server designed to compete with the likes of nginx.
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H2O – optimized HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 server
H2O is a new generation HTTP server that provides quicker response to users with less CPU, memory bandwidth utilization.
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Lwan is an experimental, scalable, high performance HTTP server
Lwan is a lightweight asynchronous multi-threaded event-based web server.
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devd is a local web server for developers
devd is a single statically compiled binary with no external dependencies, and is released for Linux, macOS and Windows.
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OpenLiteSpeed – HTTP server
OpenLiteSpeed is a high-performance, lightweight, HTTP server. OpenLiteSpeed combines speed, security, scalability, and optimization.
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Algernon – small self-contained pure-Go web server
Algernon is a mall self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Teal, Markdown, Ollama, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis, SQLite and PostgreSQL support.
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Ferron is a web server optimized for speed, security and efficiency
Ferron is a fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust. It’s also a fast reverse proxy. It can be extended with modules.
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7 Useful Free Static Web Servers
This roundup focuses on web servers that are designed for mostly static content.
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darkhttpd – simple, single-threaded, static content webserver
darkhttpd is a simple, single-threaded, static content web server. It only serves static content.
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