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 projects, sorted by GitHub stars (as recorded in the dataset). Star counts and dates come from the dataset snapshot, not live.
| Name | Description | License | Stars | Updated | Platforms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caddy | Powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS. | Apache-2.0 | 78,192 | 2026-10-20 | Go, deb, Docker | Source |
| Traefik | HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. | MIT | 65,294 | 2026-10-20 | Go, Docker | Source |
| Nginx Proxy Manager | Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface. | MIT | 34,464 | 2026-10-13 | Docker | Source |
| NGINX | HTTP and reverse proxy server, mail proxy server, and generic TCP/UDP proxy server. | BSD-2-Clause | 31,916 | 2026-10-20 | C, deb, Docker | Source |
| Pangolin | Identity-aware tunneled reverse proxy with dashboard UI, access control, and WireGuard-based tunnels (alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale). | AGPL-3.0 | 23,138 | 2026-10-19 | Docker | Source |
| SafeLine | Web application firewall / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits. | GPL-3.0 | 22,807 | 2026-09-22 | Docker | Source |
| BunkerWeb | Next-gen Web Application Firewall (WAF) that will protect your web services. | AGPL-3.0 | 11,089 | 2026-10-14 | deb, Docker, K8S, Python | Source |
| Zoraxy | General purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool. | AGPL-3.0 | 5,533 | 2026-10-19 | Go, Docker | Source |
| 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 self-hosted websites to public Internet. | Apache-2.0 | 5,058 | 2026-10-20 | Go, Docker | Source |
| go-doxy | Lightweight, simple, and performant reverse proxy with WebUI, Docker integration, automatic shutdown/startup for container based on traffic. | MIT | 4,165 | 2026-10-16 | Docker, Go | Source |
| SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway) | Nginx webserver and reverse proxy with PHP support, built-in Certbot (Let's Encrypt) client and fail2ban integration. | GPL-3.0 | 3,742 | 2026-10-20 | Docker | Source |
| Algernon | Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Markdown, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis and PostgreSQL support. | BSD-3-Clause | 3,031 | 2026-10-15 | Go, Docker | Source |
| Static Web Server | Cross-platform, high-performance, and asynchronous web server for static file serving. | Apache-2.0, MIT | 2,378 | 2026-10-18 | Rust, Docker | Source |
| Ferron | Fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust. | MIT | 2,172 | 2026-10-17 | Rust, Docker, deb | Source |
| UUSEC WAF | Industry-leading high-performance, AI and semantic technology web application firewall and API security gateway (fork of nginx). | GPL-3.0 | 1,714 | 2026-10-20 | C, Lua, Docker | Source |
| Apache HTTP Server | Secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards. | Apache-2.0 | — | — | C, deb, Docker | Source |
| HAProxy | Very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. | GPL-2.0 | — | — | C, deb, Docker | Source |
| Lighttpd | Secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. | BSD-3-Clause | — | — | C, deb, Docker | Source |
| Vinyl Cache | Web application accelerator/caching HTTP reverse proxy (formerly Varnish). | BSD-2-Clause | — | — | Go, deb, Docker | Source |