Open source alternatives to NGINX
2 projects on starwire do the same job. Ranked by how much of what NGINX does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.
What NGINX does
- Serve websites and static filescore
- Reverse proxycore
- Load balancing
- TLS termination
- Caching
- Rate limiting
Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this
| Project | Covers | Stars | Commits, 12 weeks | Last release | Closed vs opened | Setup | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 webserverWeb server written in pure PHP, without nginx or PHP-FPM |
Same job, different way56% | 193 | 22 days ago | 100% | Needs a server | MIT | |
Covers 1 of 2 core jobs. Partly: Reverse proxy; Caching. Not shown: Load balancing; Rate limiting.See the evidence
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 caddyHTTP/1-3 server with automatic HTTPS and a simple config file |
Replaces it38% | 79k+158 | 9 days ago | 99% | Needs a server | Apache-2.0 | |
Covers 1 of 2 core jobs. Not shown: Reverse proxy; Load balancing; Caching; Rate limiting.See the evidence
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