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Back in the day, I loved a lightweight and tiny web server called Cherokee. Sadly, it's no longer popular. The last stable release was almost 10 years ago. It had a neat little admin panel built in, and it was great for both testing and production for running personal websites. You can still check out its homepage[1[ and Wikipedia[2] entry.

[1] cherokee-project.com/
[2] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee

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after that, I used Lighttpd for some time, followed by Nginx. I still have Apache around, but Nginx is now the de facto standard for me. You can still find Cherokee in some routers and embedded Linux devices. I think it's due to its size. Most distro removed those packages now, but you can still file the older Dockerfile github.com/managedkaos/cherokee to play around it.

Dockerfiles for containers running the Cherokee web server. - managedkaos/cherokee
GitHubGitHub - managedkaos/cherokee: Dockerfiles for containers running the Cherokee web server.Dockerfiles for containers running the Cherokee web server. - managedkaos/cherokee

@nixCraft Just make sure you keep the Clacks running.

GNU Sir Terry Prachett

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Don't know what you use it for, but for a really barebone server on my internal network, I just use

busybox httpd -h /www/data -p 8080