Web Servers#
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.
Software#
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Algernon#
Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Markdown, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis and PostgreSQL support.
★3032 2026-11-08 Go Docker BSD-3-Clause
Apache HTTP Server#
Secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.
★? ? C deb Docker Apache-2.0
BunkerWeb#
Next-gen Web Application Firewall (WAF) that will protect your web services.
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Caddy#
Powerful, enterprise-ready web server with automatic HTTPS.
★78909 2026-11-08 Go deb Docker Apache-2.0
Ferron#
Fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust.
go-doxy#
Lightweight, simple, and performant reverse proxy with WebUI, Docker integration, automatic shutdown/startup for container based on traffic.
HAProxy#
Very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Lighttpd#
Secure, fast, compliant, and very flexible web server that has been optimized for high-performance environments.
★? ? C deb Docker BSD-3-Clause
Nginx Proxy Manager#
Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface.
NGINX#
HTTP and reverse proxy server, mail proxy server, and generic TCP/UDP proxy server.
★32081 2026-11-06 C deb Docker BSD-2-Clause
Pangolin#
Identity-aware tunneled reverse proxy with dashboard UI, access control, and WireGuard-based tunnels (alternative to Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale).
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.
★5095 2026-11-06 Go Docker Apache-2.0
SafeLine#
Web application firewall / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.
Static Web Server#
Cross-platform, high-performance, and asynchronous web server for static file serving.
★2403 2026-11-09 Rust Docker Apache-2.0 MIT
SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway)#
Nginx webserver and reverse proxy with PHP support, built-in Certbot (Let’s Encrypt) client and fail2ban integration.
Traefik#
HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy.
UUSEC WAF#
Industry-leading high-performance, AI and semantic technology web application firewall and API security gateway (fork of nginx).
Vinyl Cache#
Web application accelerator/caching HTTP reverse proxy (formerly Varnish).
★? ? Go deb Docker BSD-2-Clause
Zoraxy#
General purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool.