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7 Useful Free Static Web Servers

This roundup focuses on web servers that are designed for mostly static content.

darkhttpd is a simple, single-threaded, static content web server. It only serves static content.

miniserve is a small, self-contained cross-platform CLI tool that allows you to just grab the binary and serve some file(s) via HTTP.

quark is an extremely small and simple HTTP GET/HEAD-only web server for static content.

serve helps you serve a static site, single page application or just a static file (no matter if on your device or on the local network).

webfs is a simple http server for mostly static content. You can use it to serve the content of a ftp server via http for example.

Static Web Server (or SWS abbreviated) is a tiny and fast production-ready web server suitable to serve static web files or assets.

binserve is a fast static web server with TLS (HTTPS), Routing, Hot Reloading, Caching, Templating, and Security i

Cherokee is an innovative, feature rich, flexible and yet easy to configure, lightweight open source web server. It is implemented entirely in C.

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications.