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Best Alternatives to NGINX

lighttpd
1.

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 as FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more.

1 Common categories with NGINX:

Web Servers
Microsoft IIS
2.

Microsoft IIS

Internet Information Services is a web server for Microsoft Windows

A flexible & easy-to-manage and secure Web server for hosting web applications on the Web.

1 Common categories with NGINX:

Web Servers
Caddy
3.

Caddy

opensource

An Efficient Web Server with Automatic HTTPS

Caddy is the ultimate web server with automatic HTTPS, boasting powerful features and enterprise-readiness. Experience the difference with this open source tool written in Go.

2 Common categories with NGINX:

Web ServersLoad Balancers & Reverse Proxies
Puma
4.

Puma

A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism

Puma is a small library that provides a very fast and concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby web applications. Unlike alternative Ruby Web servers Puma was built for speed and concurrency.

1 Common categories with NGINX:

Web Servers
Sanic
5.

Sanic

opensource

A Python web server and web framework that’s written to go fast

Sanic allows to use the async/await syntax added in Python 3.5, which makes your code non-blocking and speedy.

1 Common categories with NGINX:

Web Servers
Nodal.js
6.

Nodal.js

A web server for Node.js that was built to make developer's life easier

1 Common categories with NGINX:

Web Servers
Gunicorn
7.

Gunicorn

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

1 Common categories with NGINX:

Web Servers
Unicorn
8.

Unicorn

opensource

Web Servers

1 Common categories with NGINX:

Web Servers
Harp
9.

Harp

The static web server with built-in preprocessing

Harp is a production-ready web server which helps to build static sites and client-side applications using Markdown, Sass, CoffeeScript without any configuration.

1 Common categories with NGINX:

Web Servers
XAMPP
10.

XAMPP

opensource

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

1 Common categories with NGINX:

Web Servers
OpenLiteSpeed
11.

OpenLiteSpeed

A high-performance, lightweight, open source HTTP server

1 Common categories with NGINX:

Web Servers
Perfect
12.

Perfect

A framework for developing web and other REST services in the Swift programming language

1 Common categories with NGINX:

Web Servers
HAProxy
13.

HAProxy

A high performance TCP/HTTP Load Balancer

HAproxy provides cookie-based persistence, advanced traffic regulation with surge protection, automatic failover, run-time regex-based header control, web-based reporting, advanced logging and a few other features.

1 Common categories with NGINX:

Load Balancers & Reverse Proxies
Traefik
14.

Traefik

opensource

A leading open-source reverse proxy and load balancer

Træfɪk is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer, which helps to deploy microservices easily. Traefik is built for HTTP and TCP-based applications

1 Common categories with NGINX:

Load Balancers & Reverse Proxies
Varnish
15.

Varnish

An open source reverse HTTP proxy with extensive caching abilities

Envoy Proxy
16.

Envoy Proxy

opensource

An open source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications

Envoy Proxy is a powerful open source solution for cloud-native applications. Originating from Lyft and built with high performance C++, it enables efficient communication between large microservice architectures.

1 Common categories with NGINX:

Load Balancers & Reverse Proxies

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