{"id":35865,"date":"2023-06-01T12:17:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T12:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=35865"},"modified":"2023-06-19T13:21:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T13:21:39","slug":"list-of-top-free-open-source-self-hosted-application-for-web-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/list-of-top-free-open-source-self-hosted-application-for-web-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"List of Top Free Open Source &amp; Self Hosted Application for Web Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A&nbsp;web server&nbsp;is a piece of software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via&nbsp;HTTP&nbsp;(the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant&nbsp;HTTPS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/algernon.roboticoverlords.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Algernon<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Markdown, HTTP\/2, QUIC, Redis and PostgreSQL support. <code>BSD-3-Clause<\/code>\u00a0<code>Go<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/httpd.apache.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apache HTTP Server<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards. <code>Apache-2.0<\/code>\u00a0<code>C<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/caddyserver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Caddy<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS. <code>Apache-2.0<\/code>\u00a0<code>Go<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haproxy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HAProxy<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. <code>GPL-2.0<\/code>\u00a0<code>C<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hiawatha-webserver.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hiawatha<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; An advanced and secure webserver for Unix. <code>GPL-2.0<\/code>\u00a0<code>C<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lighttpd.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lighttpd<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. <code>BSD-3-Clause<\/code>\u00a0<code>C<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nginx.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nginx<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; HTTP and reverse proxy server, mail proxy server, and generic TCP\/UDP proxy server. <code>BSD-2-Clause<\/code>\u00a0<code>C<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/traefik.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Traefik<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. <code>MIT<\/code>\u00a0<code>Go\/Docker<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/varnish-cache.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Varnish<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Web application accelerator\/caching HTTP reverse proxy. <code>BSD-2-Clause<\/code>\u00a0<code>C<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A&nbsp;web server&nbsp;is a piece of software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via&nbsp;HTTP&nbsp;(the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant&nbsp;HTTPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35874,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35865\/revisions\/35874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}