Top 15 Simple HTTP Server Alternative and Similar Softwares | Nov 2024

Need to share some files with your colleagues or setup basic html website on your machine? It's very simple with Simple HTTP Server. Just click 'Start server' and choose a folder to share. The url already in your clipboard.

1. Rwasa

Rwasa Rwasa is a full-featured, high performance, scalable web server designed to compete with the likes of nginx. It has been built from the ground-up with no externel library dependencies entirely in x86_64 assembly language, and is the result of many years' experience with high volume web environments. In addition......

2. H2O

H2O An optimized HTTP server / library implementation that can be used either as a standalone server or a library. Supported Protocols: HTTP/1.0 (http and https) HTTP/1.1 (http and https) Websocket (RFC6455, both ws and wss) HTTP/2.0 (draft 14, via Upgrade, NPN, ALP......

3. mongrel2

mongrel2 Mongrel2 is an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server that focuses on web applications using modern browser technologies.......

4. VLC Remote

VLC Remote This application allows you to control media playback of VLC Media Player from your mobile device.VLC Remote lets you sit back enjoy your movies and music while you control things from your sofa.Use our Free setup helper to configure VLC and connect your device in a couple of......

5. Rapache

Rapache Rapache is a python + GTK tool that allows you to configure apache2 and all of its modules.GPL'd, Its goal is to provide the user with a simple interface to facilitate the work to those who want to set up a web-server in a few clicks.Currently Rapache stopped working for......

6. Tornado Web Server

Tornado Web Server Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server. The framework is distinct from most mainstream web server frameworks (and certainly most Python frameworks) because it is non-blocking and reasonably fast. Because it is non-blocking and uses epoll, it can handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which......

7. Hiawatha

Hiawatha Hiawatha, a secure and advanced webserver......

8. OpenLiteSpeed

OpenLiteSpeed OpenLiteSpeed is a high-performance, lightweight, open source HTTP server developed and copyrighted by LiteSpeed Technologies. Users are free to download, use, distribute, and modify OpenLiteSpeed and its source code in accordance with the precepts of the GPLv3 license.Why Use OpenLiteSpeed?High performance, event-driven architectureSuper light-weight, minimal CPU and memory footprintApache-compatible rewrite......

9. Tinyweb

Tinyweb TinyWeb is an extremely small (executable file size is 53K), simple (no configuration other than through the command line) and fast (consumes a minimum of system resources) Win32 daemon for regular (TCP/http) and secure (SSL/TLS/https) web-servers.......

10. webfs

webfs webfs is a simple HTTP server for mostly static content. You can use it to serve the content of a FTP server via HTTP for example. It is also nice to export some files the quick way by starting a HTTP server in a few seconds, without editing some config......

11. SignalR

SignalR ASP.NET SignalR is a new library for ASP.NET developers that makes it incredibly simple to add real-time web functionality to your applications. What is "real-time web" functionality? It's the ability to have your server-side code push content to the connected clients as it happens, in real-time.......

12. Higgs.IO

Higgs.IO A high performance (Async), message oriented network library built for real time systems. It provides a core extensible framework and libraries built on top of the core. Libraries include WebSocket server, HTTP Server and Client and Boson a custom serialization and RMI library.......

13. mongrel

mongrel A small fast HTTP library and server that runs Rails, Camping, Nitro and Iowa apps.......

14. WEBrick

WEBrick WEBrick is a Ruby library providing simple HTTP web server services.......

15. Thin

Thin Thin is a Ruby web server that glues together 3 of the best Ruby libraries in web history: * the Mongrel parser, the root of Mongrel speed and security * Event Machine, a network I/O library with extremely high scalability, performance and stability * Rack, a minimal interface between webservers......