nginx: open source alternative to HAProxy

High Performance Web Platform Based on Nginx and LuaJIT

The nginx core bundled with LuaJIT and Lua modules, reading the same configuration.

Language: C
Licence: Other
Stars: 14k
Latest: v1.27.1.2
Last push: 2026-11-07

A high-performance web server and reverse proxy, 100% compatible with nginx.

Built on nginx and reads its configuration, adding dynamic upstreams, active health checks and more load-balancing methods.

Language: C
Licence: BSD-2-Clause
Stars: 13k
Latest: 3.1.0
Last push: 2026-09-07

Angie Drop-in

Angie - drop-in replacement for nginx

Fork of nginx that reads its configuration, with a status API and ACME support built in.

Language: C
Licence: BSD-2-Clause
Stars: 2.6k
Latest: Angie-1.12.4
Last push: 2026-11-10

Caddy Full replacement

Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

Automatic HTTPS and a shorter configuration.

Language: Go
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 79k
Latest: v2.11.9
Last push: 2026-11-11

Traefik Partial

The Cloud Native Application Proxy

Reverse proxy and load balancer configured from container labels, not a general web server.

Language: Go
Licence: MIT
Stars: 66k
Latest: v3.7.18
Last push: 2026-11-11

Envoy Partial

Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy

Proxy and load balancer configured through an API, without serving static files.

Language: C++
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 29k
Latest: v1.40.2
Last push: 2026-11-12

H2O Partial

H2O - the optimized HTTP/1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 server

HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 server and reverse proxy, scriptable with mruby.

Language: C
Licence: MIT
Stars: 12k
Latest: tag-no-more-releases
Last push: 2026-11-12

FrankenPHP Partial

🧟 The modern PHP app server

Serves PHP apps directly, with automatic HTTPS and a worker mode, built on Caddy.

Language: Go
Licence: MIT
Stars: 12k
Latest: v1.13.5
Last push: 2026-11-11

HAProxy Partial

HAProxy Load Balancer's development branch (mirror of git.haproxy.org)

TCP and HTTP load balancing and TLS termination, without serving static files.

Language: C
Licence: Other
Stars: 7k
Latest: v3.4.0
Last push: 2026-11-11

Static Web Server Partial

A cross-platform, high-performance and asynchronous web server for static files-serving. ⚡

Serves static files only, from a single Rust binary.

Language: Rust
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 2.4k
Latest: v2.44.2
Last push: 2026-11-12

Apache Traffic Server Partial

Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.

A caching forward and reverse proxy for high-traffic sites and CDNs.

Language: C++
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 2k
Latest: 10.2.1
Last push: 2026-11-11

OpenLiteSpeed Partial

Our high-performance, lightweight, open source HTTP server

Web server with Apache-compatible rewrite rules and built-in page caching for PHP apps.

Language: C++
Licence: GPL-3.0
Stars: 1.5k
Latest: v1.9.4
Last push: 2026-11-09

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release-1.31.82026-10-21nginx-1.31.8 mainline version has been released.
release-1.30.62026-10-14nginx-1.30.6 stable version has been released, with fixes for buffer overflow vulnerability when using alias with rewri…
release-1.31.72026-10-14nginx-1.31.7 mainline version has been released, with fixes for buffer overflow vulnerability when using alias with rew…
release-1.30.52026-09-15nginx-1.30.5 stable version has been released, with fixes for buffer overflow vulnerability when using ngx_http_v3_modu…
release-1.31.62026-09-15nginx-1.31.6 mainline version has been released, with fixes for buffer overflow vulnerability when using ngx_http_v3_mo…

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