Web Server

Apache

• Flexible config
• C10K problem
• Popular

Nginx

• Fast
• Popular
• Conditional config not flexible (see Nginx if)
• Language: C

Caddy

• Fast
• Language: Go
• Automatic apply TLS certification
  • Support ZeroSSL and Let's Encrypt
• Support config using API

Simple static files web server

For CLI

miniserve

• Cross platform
• Self-contained (single executable file)
• Lightweight ( < 2MB for Windows / Linux x86 )
• Language: Rust

For node.js

vercel serve

• CLI
• API

http-server

• Not recommended
• Issue of lastest version (see Version 14 has error ERR_HTTP_HEADERS_SENT)

For python

# python -m http.server [port]
python -m http.server

• Python built-in
• Crash if the request is not standard