Web Servers
Sorted by GitHub stars, which measures attention rather than fitness. Read the release date and the commit count next to it before picking one.
| Tool | Stars |
|---|---|
Powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS. Apache-2.0 · released 2026-06-03 | 75,558 |
HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy. MIT · released 2026-09-04 | 64,781 |
Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface. MIT · released 2026-06-03 | 34,089 |
HTTP and reverse proxy server, mail proxy server, and generic TCP/UDP proxy server. BSD-2-Clause · released 2026-09-02 | 31,596 |
Identity-aware tunneled reverse proxy with dashboard UI, access control, and WireGuard-based tunnels (alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale). AGPL-3.0 · released 2026-09-04 | 22,669 |
Web application firewall / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits. GPL-3.0 · released 2026-09-03 | 22,514 |
Next-gen Web Application Firewall (WAF) that will protect your web services. AGPL-3.0 · released 2026-08-31 | 10,914 |
General purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool. AGPL-3.0 · released 2026-08-22 | 5,436 |
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 · released 2026-08-18 | 4,997 |
Lightweight, simple, and performant reverse proxy with WebUI, Docker integration, automatic shutdown/startup for container based on traffic. MIT · released 2026-08-28 | 4,145 |
Nginx webserver and reverse proxy with PHP support, built-in Certbot (Let's Encrypt) client and fail2ban integration. GPL-3.0 · released 2026-09-05 | 3,718 |
Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Markdown, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis and PostgreSQL support. BSD-3-Clause · released 2026-07-26 | 3,028 |
Cross-platform, high-performance, and asynchronous web server for static file serving. Apache-2.0, MIT · released 2026-07-31 | 2,349 |
Fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust. MIT · released 2026-09-06 | 2,131 |
Industry-leading high-performance, AI and semantic technology web application firewall and API security gateway (fork of nginx). GPL-3.0 · released 2026-08-05 | 1,710 |
Secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards. Apache-2.0 · released unknown | n/a |
Very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. GPL-2.0 · released unknown | n/a |
Secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments. BSD-3-Clause · released unknown | n/a |
Web application accelerator/caching HTTP reverse proxy (formerly Varnish). BSD-2-Clause · released unknown | n/a |
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