Overview
A list of notable lightweight web servers follows:
| Server | Creator/Developer | Operating Systems | Development Language | Free software | Software license | Size (kB) of .tar file | Last release version | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherokee | Álvaro López Ortega | Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, Solaris, BSD | C | Yes | GPL | 16440 | 1.0.18 | 2011-01-19 |
| Hiawatha | Hugo Leisink | POSIX, Unix, Linux, BSD, OS X, QNX, Windows, Haiku | C | Yes | GPL 2 | 2380 | 8.6 | 2012-10-31 |
| HTTP File Server | Massimo Melina (aka rejetto) | Windows | Delphi | Yes | GPL | 600 | 2.2f | 2009-02-17 |
| IIS Express | Microsoft | Windows | ? | No | Closed source | 3985 | 7.5 | 2011-01-18 |
| lighttpd | Jan Kneschke | Unix, Linux | C | Yes | BSD | 3520 | 1.4.31 | 2012-05-31 |
| Mongoose | Sergey Lyubka | Windows, Unix, Linux | C | Yes | MIT | 117 | 3.3 | 2012-09-23 |
| yasslEWS | yaSSL, Sergey Lyubka | QNX, SafeRTOS, FreeRTOS, embedded RTOS's | C | Yes | GPLv2 | 117 | 1.0 | 2012-08-21 |
| Mongrel2 | Zed A. Shaw | Unix, Linux | C | Yes | BSD | 1186 | 1.8.0 | 2012-07-26 |
| Mongrel | Zed A. Shaw | Unix, Linux | Ruby | Yes | GPL 2 or Ruby License | 400 | 1.1.5 | 2008-05-22 |
| NanoHTTPD | Jarno Elonen | Java enabled, including mobile | Java | Yes | Modified BSD | 33 | 1.25 | 2012-02-12 |
| nginx | NGINX, Inc. | Unix-like, Windows | C | Yes | BSD | 8584 | 1.2.5 | 2012-11-13 |
| Perlbal | Brad Fitzpatrick | Any OS with Perl | Perl | Yes | GPL / Artistic | 590 | 1.73 | 2009-10-13 |
| Resin Server | Scott Ferguson | Unix, Windows, Mac OS X | Java, C | Yes | GPL | 190873 | 4.026 | 2012-02-29 |
| thttpd | Acme Labs | Unix | C | Yes | BSD | 406.0 | 2.25b | 2003-12-29 |
| Tntnet | Tommi Mäkitalo | Unix | C++ | Yes | LGPL | 1705 | 2.0 | 2011-08-10 |
| Server | Creator/Developer | Operating Systems | Development Language | Open source | Software license | Size (kB) of .tar file | Last release version | Release date |
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