Compact, easy to use and feature-rich

Abyss Web Server is a compact web server available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems.

Despite its small footprint, it supports HTTP/1.1, secure SSL/TLS connections (HTTPS), on-the-fly HTTP compression, dynamic content generation through CGI/FastCGI scripts, ISAPI extensions, native ASP.NET support, eXtended Side Includes (XSSI), custom error pages, password protection, IP address control, anti-leeching, and bandwidth throttling.

It also features an automatic antihacking system as well as a multilingual remote web management interface that makes its configuration as easy as browsing a web site.

Abyss Web Server enables you to host your Web sites on your computer.

It supports secure SSL/TLS connections (HTTPS) as well as a wide range of Web technologies.

It can also run advanced PHP, Perl, Python, ASP, ASP.NET, and Ruby on Rails Web applications which can be backed by databases such as MySQL, SQLite, MS SQL Server, MS Access, or Oracle.