Compare the Top Web Servers as of August 2025 - Page 2

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    Cherokee

    Cherokee

    Cherokee

    Cherokee is an innovative, feature-rich, lightning-fast and easy to configure open source web server designed for the next generation of highly concurrent secured web applications. All the configuration is done through Cherokee-Admin, a beautiful and powerful web interface. Cherokee supports the most widespread web technologies, FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, uWSGI, SSI, CGI, LDAP, TLS/SSL, HTTP proxying, video streaming, content caching, traffic shaping, etc. Cherokee runs on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and BSD. It is highly efficient, extremely lightweight and provides rock-solid stability. Among its many features, there is one that deserves special credit, a user-friendly interface called cherokee-admin that is provided for a no-hassle configuration of every single feature of the server. This administration interface allows you to configure the webserver without having to worry about editing a text file written with a certain syntax.
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    Cowboy
    Cowboy is the ultimate server for the modern Web with support for Websocket, HTTP/2 and REST. Cowboy is a small, fast and modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP. Cowboy aims to provide a complete modern Web stack. This includes HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, WebSocket, server-sent events and Webmachine-based REST. Cowboy comes with functions for introspection and tracing, enabling developers to know precisely what is happening at any time. Its modular design also easily enables developers to add instrumentation. Cowboy is a high-quality project. It has a small code base, is very efficient (both in latency and memory use) and can easily be embedded in another application. Cowboy is clean Erlang code. It includes hundreds of tests and its code is fully compliant with the Dialyzer. It is also well documented and features a function reference, a user guide and numerous tutorials. Knowledge of the HTTP protocol is recommended but not required, as it will be detailed throughout the guide.
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    KickWeb Server
    Easy and automatic installation, everything is pre-configured, low memory consumption, low CPU usage, capable of serving requests simultaneously, not need of root access though you can use root as well, and completely free of charge along with no advertisement. This is the best Android web server. Internal memory should not be less than 50MB! Lighttpd 1.4.34, PHP 5.5.9, MySQL 5.1.62,, MSMTP 1.4.31, phpMyAdmin 4.1.10, and Nginx 1.5.11. One thing you should remember is starting server before entering configurations.
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    OpenLiteSpeed

    OpenLiteSpeed

    LiteSpeed Technologies

    OpenLiteSpeed is the Open Source edition of LiteSpeed Web Server Enterprise. Both servers are actively developed and maintained by the same team, and are held to the same high-quality coding standard. OpenLiteSpeed contains all of the essential features found in LiteSpeed Enterprise, and represents our commitment to support the Open Source community. Event driven processes, less overhead, and enormous scalability. Keep your existing hardware. OpenLiteSpeed is mod_rewrite compatible, with no new syntax to learn. Continue to use your existing rewrite rules. Built-in full-page cache module is highly-customizable and efficient for an exceptional user experience. Automatically implement Google’s PageSpeed optimization system with the mod_pagespeed module. Install OpenLiteSpeed, MariaDB and WordPress on various operating systems with just one click.
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    Seminole

    Seminole

    GladeSoft

    Seminole is an embeddable webserver toolkit designed to be non-invasive and easily retrofitted to existing applications, lightweight with low resource consumption, and highly reliable with proper standards compliance and security safeguards. Written using a subset of C++, Seminole provides a modular, high-level API which simultaneously insulates the client programmer from complicated protocol details while allowing total control over low-level operation when necessary. Add in the optional Application Framework for a complete stateful and message-based development environment. Another important feature Seminole has is a powerful discovery service. The Seminole discovery protocol uses IP multicast to find locate Seminole instances even if you don't know the address of the devices. Additionally the discovery protocol can send small amounts of status information periodically.
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    McPherran Web Engine
    The McPherran web engine is a complete stand-alone web sever software package. It hosts websites and can also provide general Internet content delivery and web application processing. The software is engineered for performance, reliability, and security. Save time, spare large expenditures, and minimize business risk. We've done the work for you. Leverage our platform and technology to develop your high-performance web services product.
    Starting Price: $20
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    AIOHTTP

    AIOHTTP

    AIOHTTP

    Supports both client and server side of HTTP protocol, both client and server web-sockets out-of-the-box, and avoids callback hell and web-server with middlewares and pluggable routing.
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    Gunicorn

    Gunicorn

    Gunicorn

    Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources, and fairly speedy.
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    LiteSpeed Web Server

    LiteSpeed Web Server

    LiteSpeed Technologies

    Our lightweight Apache alternative conserves resources without sacrificing performance, security, compatibility, or convenience. Double the maximum capacity of your current Apache servers with LiteSpeed Web Server's streamlined event-driven architecture, capable of handling thousands of concurrent clients with minimal memory consumption and CPU usage. Protect your servers with already familiar ModSecurity rules while also taking advantage of a host of built-in anti-DDoS features, such as bandwidth and connection throttling. Conserve capital by reducing the number of servers needed to support your growing hosting business or online application. Reduce complexity by eliminating the need for an HTTPS reverse proxy or additional 3rd party caching layers. LiteSpeed Web Server is compatible with all popular Apache features including its Rewrite Engine and ModSecurity, and can load Apache configuration files directly.
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    MacHTTP-js

    MacHTTP-js

    MacHTTP-js

    MacHTTP-js is currently available for preview on macOS now. As a brand new application, MacHTTP-js includes features never envisioned in the original when it was first released in 1992. MacHTTP-js is written from the ground up using the node.js platform, which means it is a cross-platform application that can run on macOS, Windows, and Linux operating systems. MacHTTP-js is a full-featured Web server for 21st century desktops and servers. A "preview" release is available now for Mac users, followed by a general release for Windows 10 and Linux computers, including support for Docker. This is a full-featured release for macOS and other O/S versions will follow shortly.