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24 alternatives to Deadwire-HTTPD A triple-threaded x86-64 assembly static server

A high-performance static HTTP/1.0 server driven by a bespoke triple-thread architecture (Supervisor, Acceptor, Engine) delivering nanosecond-level processing using raw x86-64 assembly and pure Linux syscalls.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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   ZeroHTTPd: A web server to teach Linux performance, with benchmarks▲472

   Articles in this series Part I. Iterative ServersPart II. Forking ServersPart III. Pre-forking ServersPart IV. Threaded ServersPart V. Pre-threaded ServersPart VI: poll-based serverPart VII: epoll-…

   2019 · unixism.net · its alternatives →

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   HTTP server written in x64 assembly (x86-64)▲12

   A minimalist HTTP server for Linux, written in x86_64 assembly - jcalvinowens/asmhttpd

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Ht – HTTPie Clone in Rust▲251

   Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. Contribute to ducaale/xh development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   AsmHTTPd – The tiniest webserver ever written (Linux, x86_64 assembly)▲8

   A minimalist HTTP server for Linux, written in x86_64 assembly - jcalvinowens/asmhttpd

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   A little web server in C▲178

   A little web server written in C for Linux. Supports: CGI, Reverse Proxy. Single threaded using I/O multiplexing (select).

   2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Introducing Harp – A static web server with built in preprocessing▲233

   2013 · sintaxi.com · its alternatives →

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   Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning▲430

   This is ymawky, a static file web server for MacOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly. It supports GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests, and supports Range: bytes=X-Y headers (which allows scrubbing for video streaming). It decodes percent-encoded URLs, strictly enforces docroot, serves custom error pages for any HTTP error response, supports directory listing, and has (some) mitigations against slowloris-like attacks. I’ve also written a more detailed writeup here: https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/

   May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   My 486 Server▲255

   Hello. I wrote a multitasking 16-bit real mode "operating system" that works on every IBM PC compatible computer, and a TCP/IP stack for it. Then I wrote an HTTP server for it.

   2022 · 486servu.dy.fi · its alternatives →

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   Pure C Asynchronous HTTP Framework▲80

   Asynchronous C networking library with HTTP server, WebSockets, reverse proxy, HTTP/2 gRPC client, TLS and event loop. - Softmotions/iwnet

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi▲87

    Hey HN, I wanted to get more familiar with C programming, *nix socket programming and C compilation, so I wrote this "web" ""server"". It's running on a tiny SBC in my office, and there's as little as possible between you and it. Happy for you to try and break it, hopefully with something more interesting than a DoS though :) Please let me know if you find any issues.

    2025 · unsafehttp.benren.au · its alternatives →

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    Micro HTTP server in 22 lines of C▲223

    This post is from a protected account.

    2021 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

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    Hydrogen, a multithread non-blocking Linux server framework in Rust▲154

    Multithreaded, non-blocking Linux server framework in Rust - nathansizemore/hydrogen

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Pushpin – A new way to build realtime HTTP and WebSocket services▲114

    Reverse proxy for realtime APIs.

    2015 · pushpin.org · its alternatives →

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    PicoMQ – Durable Streams over HTTP, on object storagefree▲159

    PicoMQ is a Rust server for Durable Streams, built on Object Store. Cheap, URL-addressable, granular streams (create/append/read/long-poll/SSE), with Pico Protocol or Durable Streams Protocol as the facade. S3Stream is the stream storage primitive, used in AutoMQ, shipped as a Rust library. Coordination is a command log in Postgres.

    Aug 2026 · picomq.com · its alternatives →

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    A pure bash web server. No netcat, socat, etc.▲224

    A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc... - GitHub - dzove855/Bash-web-server: A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc...

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Pump, a dead simple Pythonic abstraction of HTTP.▲118

    2011 · adeel.github.com · its alternatives →

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    LEAR – A simple and fast HTTP server to serve static resources▲66

    Linux Engine for Asset Retrieval - speed-profiled C HTTP server - Glorf/lear

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Servasm – Literate web server in x86 assembler▲117

    2015 · zarkzork.com · its alternatives →

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    Second State Serverless FaaS▲92

    High-performance serverless functions for Rust & WebAssembly

    2020 · secondstate.io · its alternatives →

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    Hellepoll is a blazingly-fast async HTTP server written in C++▲35

    This is based on an approach I made for a very high performance message and video multiplexing server. The project died, but I'm glad I get to share the a basic version with some http test code now. I admit this is the second time I've tried to show this off here today; I posted earlier but it got lost when no-one was watching :(

    2011 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A minimal Fortran TCP client and server▲110

    A minimal Fortran TCP client and server. Contribute to modern-fortran/tcp-client-server development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A partial HTTP server written in brainfuck extended with syscalls▲103

    a brainfuck interpreter supporting linux syscalls with an example HTTP server - ajyoon/systemf

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    bashttp - a very (very) simple web server in Bash▲92

    µServer in Bash. Contribute to EddySchauHai/bashttp development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source non-blocking NIO Java HTTP Server▲59

    A full featured, stand-alone, high-performance HTTP server and client written entirely in plain Java - FusionAuth/java-http

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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