MAMP vs lighttpd Comparison in 2025

MAMP

7Alternatives

lighttpd

13Alternatives

Overview

About MAMP

A free local server designed for web developers

MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, MySQL and PHP) deploys a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your computer. MAMP...

About lighttpd

A lightweight and high-performance event-driven web server

Lighttpd is a web server with a very low memory requirements and cpu-load compared to alternatives. lighttpd has such features...

mamp.info

lighttpd.net

MAMP categories

Web Servers

lighttpd categories

Web Servers

Alternatives

MAMP and lighttpd have 3 alternatives in common. Among them are XAMPP, Microsoft IIS, Gunicorn. When comparing MAMP and lighttpd, you can also check the following apps.

MAMP alternatives

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XAMPP

An open-source cross-platform web server that is used primarily for local development

Gunicorn

Gunicorn (Green Unicorn) is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications

Microsoft IIS

Internet Information Services is a web server for Microsoft Windows

Atera

An all-in-one remote IT monitoring and management solution for MSPs

Splunk

Log Management

All MAMP alternatives

lighttpd alternatives

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Microsoft IIS

Internet Information Services is a web server for Microsoft Windows

XAMPP

An open-source cross-platform web server that is used primarily for local development

Caddy

An Efficient Web Server with Automatic HTTPS

NGINX

A high performance free open source web server

Gunicorn

Gunicorn (Green Unicorn) is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications

All lighttpd alternatives