Winginx

Focusing both on speed and low resource consumption, Winginx provides developers with a powerful web server based on nginx. It is designed to deliver a versatile tool for website testing and maintenance, allowing web developers to deploy their projects without requiring Internet access.

The local web server can be controlled via the centralized control panel, available if you double-click on the tray icon. Here, you can start and stop servers individually. Aside from nginx, Winginx comes with support for PHP, Memcached, Redis, MongoDB, and MySQL, which places it amongst the most flexible web server solutions out there.

It also ensures compatibility with Node.js projects, allowing developers to execute JavaScript code. All these features are installed by default but you can also leave some out during setup if you don't need them.

Being a local web server with support for many platforms, Winginx implements a multi-project system, meaning you can work with more than one project at a time.

In fact, the Winginx workbench allows convenient project management, not just in terms of the server configuration, but also regarding tasks and time tracking. The dashboard enables you to store all your ideas, planned and ongoing tasks, with attached deadlines, which can keep your work organized and increase your productivity.

Winginx is in many ways better than other solutions out there and what sets it apart from the crowd is its core, based on the nginx web server, instead of Apache, which most web developers might be accustomed to. Essentially, the web server is not difficult to configure and getting used to the configuration of nginx might determine some developers to switch from Apache.