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lighttpd

A secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web-server that has been optimized for high-performance environments.

Some of the top features or benefits of lighttpd are: Low Memory Footprint, High Performance, Easy to Configure, Supports FastCGI, SCGI, and CGI, and Event-Driven Architecture. You can visit the info page to learn more.

Best lighttpd Alternatives & Competitors in 2025

The best lighttpd alternatives based on verified products, community votes, reviews and other factors.
Filter: 12 Open-Source Alternatives. Latest update:

  1. 153

    Apache httpd has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996

    Open Source

    /apache-http-server-alternatives
  2. 142

    Internet Information Services is a web server for Microsoft Windows

    /microsoft-iis-alternatives
  3. High performance web components for SaaS apps - including Gantt, Scheduler, Grid, Calendar and Kanban widgets. Seamless integration with React, Vue, Angular or plain JS apps.

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  4. 122

    An open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies

    Open Source

    /apache-tomcat-alternatives
  5. 126

    LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is a high-performance Apache drop-in replacement.

    /litespeed-web-server-alternatives
  6. 100

    Static web hosting made simple

    /forge-alternatives
  7. 101

    Phusion Passenger is a multi-language (Ruby, Python, Node) web & app server which can integrate into Apache and Nginx

    Open Source

    /phusion-passenger-alternatives
  8. 103

    Jetty is a highly scalable modular servlet engine and http server that natively supports many modern protocols like SPDY and WebSockets.

    /eclipse-jetty-alternatives
  9. 108

    Turning Nginx into a Full-fledged Web App Server

    /openresty-alternatives
  10. 115

    XAMPP is a free and open-source cross-platform web server that is primarily used when locally developing web applications.

    /xampp-alternatives
  11. 103

    MAMP is the abbreviation for Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. It is a reliable application with its four components that allows you to access the local PHP server as well as the database server (SQL).

    /mamp-alternatives
  12. 105

    WildFly is a flexible, lightweight application server.

    Open Source

    /wildfly-alternatives
  13. 100

    Gunicorn is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX.

    Open Source

    /gunicorn-alternatives
  14. 75

    A high performance free open source web server powering busiest sites on the Internet.

    Open Source

    /nginx-alternatives
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