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

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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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    Abyss Web Server
    Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. Despite its small footprint, it supports HTTP/2, secure SSL/TLS connections (HTTPS), automated provisioning and renewal of free certificates from Let's Encrypt® (ACME v2), IPv6, on-the-fly HTTP compression, dynamic content generation through CGI/FastCGI scripts, ISAPI extensions, native ASP.NET, HTTP/HTTPS/WebSocket reverse proxying, eXtended Side Includes (XSSI), custom error pages, password protection, IP address control, anti-leeching, bandwidth throttling, and log rotation. It also features an automatic antihacking system as well as a multilingual remote web management interface that makes its configuration as easy as browsing a web site.
    Starting Price: $59.95 one-time payment
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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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    Apache Tomcat
    The Apache Tomcat® software is an open source implementation of the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Server Pages, Jakarta Expression Language, Jakarta WebSocket, Jakarta Annotations and Jakarta Authentication specifications. These specifications are part of the Jakarta EE platform. Apache Tomcat software powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of industries and organizations. Some of these users and their stories are listed on the PoweredBy wiki page. The Apache Tomcat Project is proud to announce the release of version 10.0.10 of Apache Tomcat. This release implements specifications that are part of the Jakarta EE 9 platform.
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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.
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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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    McPherran Web Engine
    The McPherran web engine is a complete stand-alone web sever software platform. 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.