DDEV Alternatives

MAMP is a free, local server environment for macOS and Windows. With MAMP, anyone can start a local web server that can be used to develop WordPress sites or other web applications. MAMP supports Apache and Nginx and provides a pre-configured installation of MySQL, all of which can be used to create applications in PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby.

Laragon is a portable, isolated, fast & powerful universal development environment for PHP, Node.js, Python, Java, Go, Ruby. With Laragon it becomes quick and easy to setup development environments with tools designed to build and manage modern web applications. The bundle is designed to be as lightweight and lean as possible, where the current core binary itself is less than 2MB and uses less than 4MB RAM when running. The project is built and released as free and open-source software, where anyone is free to contribute and help evolve the product.

Laravel Forge provides instant PHP servers and Laravel Hosting without the nightmares of server management. With Laravel Forge you can provision and deploy unlimited PHP applications on DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, Amazon, Hetzner and other cloud hosting providers. Forge includes an easy to manage user interface that automatically links to your supported cloud hosting provides, or allow you to provision a Virtual Private Server (VPS) or use a custom provider of your choice.

WampServer is a pre-configured web development stack for the Windows operating system. With WampServer it easy to manage a local web development environment that includes the Apache Web Server, the programming language PHP, combined with a MySQL or MariaDB database. WampServer comes with an installer that automatically installs everything you need to get started with the stack. Which makes WampServer a perfect choice for developer looking to quickly setup a local WAMP stack.