Self-hosted Web Servers software

Web Servers and Reverse Proxies. A web server is a piece of software and underlying hardware that accepts requests via HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS. A Reverse Proxy is a proxy server that appears to any client to be an ordinary web server, but in reality merely acts as an intermediary that forwards requests to one or more ordinary web servers.

19 apps, ranked by GitHub stars weighted by maintenance health.

Caddy

Powerful, enterprise-ready web server with automatic HTTPS.

Actively maintained ★ 78.7k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Traefik

HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy.

Actively maintained ★ 65.5k MIT 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Nginx Proxy Manager

Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface.

Actively maintained ★ 34.6k MIT 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

NGINX

HTTP and reverse proxy server, mail proxy server, and generic TCP/UDP proxy server.

Actively maintained ★ 32k BSD-2-Clause 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Pangolin

Identity-aware tunneled reverse proxy with dashboard UI, access control, and WireGuard-based tunnels (alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale).

Actively maintained ★ 23.3k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

SafeLine

Web application firewall / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.

Actively maintained ★ 23.2k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

BunkerWeb

Next-gen Web Application Firewall (WAF) that will protect your web services.

Actively maintained ★ 11.2k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Zoraxy

General purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool.

Actively maintained ★ 5.6k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Pomerium

Identity-aware reverse proxy, successor to now obsolete oauth_proxy. It inserts an OAuth step before proxying your request to the backend, so that you can safely expose your own websites to public Internet.

Actively maintained ★ 5.1k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

go-doxy

Lightweight, simple, and performant reverse proxy with WebUI, Docker integration, automatic shutdown/startup for container based on traffic.

Actively maintained ★ 4.2k MIT 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway)

Nginx webserver and reverse proxy with PHP support, built-in Certbot (Let's Encrypt) client and fail2ban integration.

Actively maintained ★ 3.8k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Algernon

Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Markdown, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis and PostgreSQL support.

Actively maintained ★ 3k BSD-3-Clause 🐳 Docker~$5/mo

Static Web Server

Cross-platform, high-performance, and asynchronous web server for static file serving.

Actively maintained ★ 2.4k Apache-2.0, MIT 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Ferron

Fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust.

Actively maintained ★ 2.2k MIT 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

UUSEC WAF

Industry-leading high-performance, AI and semantic technology web application firewall and API security gateway (fork of nginx).

Actively maintained ★ 1.7k GPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Apache HTTP Server

Secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.

Health unknown Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

HAProxy

Very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Health unknown GPL-2.0 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Lighttpd

Secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments.

Health unknown BSD-3-Clause 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

Vinyl Cache

Web application accelerator/caching HTTP reverse proxy (formerly Varnish).

Health unknown BSD-2-Clause 🐳 Docker~$3.5/mo

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