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] https://cherokee-project.com/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_%28web_server%29
@nixCraft I can't believe I've never heard of this web server before! Amazing. Thanks for bubbling it up. Sadly, looks like it is a dead project.
@chris Yes, development has completely slowed down, and many issues are open on Github. Back in old days it was very active. Sometimes I wonder how many FLOSS-based apps and servers slowly faded away and died out. I suppose it's the nature of the universe. Nothing lasts forever. But, I will always be thankful to those who wrote it and released their hard work :)