Top 15 Caddy Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

Caddy is a web server like Apache, nginx, or lighttpd, but with different goals, features, and advantages.
The goal of Caddy is to streamline an authentic web development, deployment, and hosting workflow so that anyone can host their own web sites without requiring special technical understanding.

1. Jekyll

Jekyll Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory (representing the raw form of a website), runs it through and Liquid converters, and spits out a complete, static website suitable for serving with Apache or your favorite web server. This is also the engine behind......

2. Demandware

Demandware Competitive advantage in retail doesn’t come from managing IT infrastructure. It comes from innovation, market expansion and exceeding customer expectations. With the industry’s most agile and scalable commerce platform, Demandware enables you to focus resources on the strategic initiatives that drive growth.With the industry's most agile and scalable commerce platform,......

3. 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......

4. CrushFTP

CrushFTP CrushFTP is a robust file transfer server that makes it easy to setup secure connections with your users.'Crush' comes from the built-in zip methods in CrushFTP. They allow for downloading files in compressed formats in-stream, or even automatically expanding zip files as they are received in-stream. This is called ZipStreaming......

5. Mongoose

Mongoose Mongoose is easy to use web server. It also can be used as embedded web server library to provide web interface to applications. Technical Specs: * Cross Platform:Linux/Unix, MacOS, QNX, eCOS, Windows, Android, iPhone, FreeRTOS (TI CC3200, ESP8266) * Built-in protocols:Plain TCP, plain UDP, SSL/TLS (over TCP, one-way or two-way),......

6. Octopress

Octopress Octopress is a framework designed by Brandon Mathis for Jekyll, the blog aware static site generator powering Github Pages. To start blogging with Jekyll, you have to write your own HTML templates, CSS, Javascripts and set up your configuration. But with Octopress All of that is already taken care of.......

7. Portable Webserver

Portable Webserver It's a portable server manager that you can go anywhere, anytime, in any computer and run your webapp. Quick and easy to configure, a really useful application for your portable apps kit.......

8. Tclssg

Tclssg A static site generator with template support written in Tcl. It is intended to make it easy to manage a small personal website with an optional blog. Tclssg uses Markdown for content formatting, Bootstrap for layout (with Bootstrap theme support) and Tcl code embedded in HTML for templating.Features* Markdown, Bootstrap......

9. Yellow

Yellow Yellow is for people who make websites. It's a flat-file content management system. Everything is made of files and folders. You can create web pages, blogs, wikis. There's support for Dropbox, Markdown and static content generation.......

10. Hakyll

Hakyll Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static sites, mostly aimed at small-to-medium sites and personal blogs. It is written in a very configurable way and uses an xmonad-like DSL for configuration.......

11. WordPress

WordPress WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.Self-hosted WordPress software is free, hosting service at WordPress.com is freemium.......

12. ProcessWire

ProcessWire ProcessWire is a friendly and powerful open source CMS and CMF with an exceptionally strong foundation. With all custom fields, an easy-to-use jQuery-inspired API, and a powerful page selector engine, ProcessWire will rise to any task.Clients love ProcessWire for its no-fuss simplicity and ease of use when editing their site.......

13. CouchCMS

CouchCMS A simple CMS for web designers. Take any HTML/CSS template and make it CMS enabled in minutes!......

14. Elefant CMS

Elefant CMS Refreshingly simple PHP content management system and web framework. Elefant is easy-to-use and straight-forward for all levels of users. Elefant is also secure, extremely fast, well-documented, and well-tested, making it an ideal platform for web developers to build on for their own custom web applications.......

15. 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......