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Alternatives to Nginx

Nginx is a popular software application. Here you can find self-hosted alternatives that offer similar functionality while giving you more control over your data and privacy.

Found 11 self-hosted alternatives

Privoxy

Non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. `GPL-2.0` `C/deb`.

infrastructure
infrastructure Security ad blocking

Tinyproxy

Light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon.

Security
infrastructure web traffic server

Algernon

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

PostgreSQL
Redis Web Servers Lua

Apache HTTP Server

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

Apache
Web Servers Apache HTTP Server

Caddy

Powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS.

Open Source
HTTPS Web Servers Open Source

go-doxy

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

Automation
infrastructure WebUI Web Servers

HAProxy

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

infrastructure
infrastructure HTTP Web Servers

Lighttpd

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

Security
Web Servers High Performance Flexibility

Static Web Server

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

Asynchronous
Asynchronous Cross-platform Web Servers

Traefik

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

infrastructure
infrastructure Web Servers Microservices

Zoraxy

General purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool.

infrastructure
infrastructure Web Servers Forwarding Tool