Where Traefik's built-in dashboard only shows what is running, Traefik Manager lets you change it: add routes, middlewares, and services from forms and wizards instead of editing YAML by hand. A first-run wizard connects to the Traefik API, creates a route for the manager itself, and sets the admin password. After that, the dashboard turns every route into a launchable app card with live health, and the Route Map draws each request from entry point through middlewares to backend. New routes use a slide-in form for HTTP, TCP, or UDP with several domains and backends, sticky sessions, and health checks. 30 middleware wizards handle authentication, rate limiting, headers, CORS, and redirects, and weighted, mirroring, or failover services can be built on their own. For day-to-day monitoring, the Certificates tab tracks expiry from acme.json, the Logs tab turns the access log into clickable analytics, the CrowdSec tab lists attacks and bans, and alerts reach Discord, Slack, ntfy, Telegram, and more. Changes to traefik.yml apply with a one-click restart, every edit is backed up locally and can be pushed to a git repository, and a lightweight agent brings remote Traefik servers into the same interface. Sign in with TOTP two-factor or OIDC single sign-on, in any of 14 languages. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

With over 43,000 GitHub stars and adoption by companies including Nasdaq, Samsung, and Expedia, Kong Gateway is the world's most deployed open-source API gateway, processing billions of API requests daily across hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud architectures. Built on the battle-tested NGINX engine with OpenResty's LuaJIT runtime, Kong delivers sub-millisecond proxy latency while supporting REST, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket, SOAP, and Kafka protocols. The plugin architecture includes authentication via JWT, Basic Auth, HMAC, key authentication, OAuth 2.0, and LDAP, alongside rate limiting with configurable windows per consumer, IP address, or API key. The AI Proxy plugin provides a universal LLM API that routes across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI, Databricks, Mistral, and Hugging Face through a single standardized interface, while MCP proxy capabilities convert REST APIs into MCP tools and provide traffic governance for AI agents. Kong supports declarative configuration via YAML for GitOps workflows, a RESTful Admin API for dynamic configuration, and decK CLI for version-controlled infrastructure-as-code management. Upstream health checking with active and passive probes enables automatic failover, and the ring balancer distributes traffic across upstream targets with consistent hashing, round-robin, or least-connections algorithms. The Kong Plugin Hub hosts over 100 community and official plugins covering logging, monitoring, transformation, security, and traffic control. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

With 17,000 GitHub stars, 460+ contributors, and deployments across telecommunications, automotive, and financial services running on over 10,000 CPU cores at the largest known installations, Apache APISIX delivers a fully dynamic API gateway achieving 140,000 QPS on eight cores with sub-millisecond latency through NGINX's event-driven architecture and LuaJIT-compiled plugin execution. The 100+ open-source plugins cover authentication (JWT, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, Keycloak, LDAP), observability (Prometheus, Datadog, SkyWalking, OpenTelemetry), traffic management (rate limiting, circuit breaking, canary releases, traffic splitting), and security (CORS, IP restriction, CSRF protection) — all hot-reloadable without process restarts via etcd-based real-time configuration synchronization. Multi-protocol support handles HTTP, gRPC, MQTT, TCP, UDP, and WebSocket traffic for both north-south API access and east-west service mesh communication. AI gateway capabilities proxy requests to 20+ LLM providers with semantic caching, token-aware rate limiting, provider failover routing, and content moderation. Custom plugins extend the gateway in Lua, Go, Java, Python, or WebAssembly. Radixtree route matching handles 100,000+ routes without performance degradation. Functions as a Kubernetes ingress controller with native service discovery for Consul, Nacos, and Eureka. Deploy via Docker or Helm charts with horizontal scaling through etcd cluster coordination. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Providing an intuitive control plane for modern reverse proxy infrastructure, CaddyUI enables system administrators to manage proxy hosts, automated TLS certificates, and traffic routing without hand-editing configuration files. Operators can create and adjust reverse proxy destinations, URL path rewrites, custom headers, and redirection rules using structured forms that validate against the proxy engine before saving. The platform coordinates automatic ACME certificate requests and renewals, displaying live certificate expiration timelines, validation stages, and internal self-signed certificate authority options for local network services. Fleet management tools synchronize proxy rules across multiple distributed server instances, preventing configuration drift across staging and production clusters. Automated post-deployment health checks verify upstream endpoint availability, HTTP status codes, and latency thresholds, instantly rolling back to the previous configuration if an expectation fails. An integrated observability suite delivers real-time visitor traffic analytics, geographic maps, HTTP response code breakdowns, and single-click client IP blocking to counter malicious probing attempts. Administrators can schedule automated database backups, configure multi-user access with role permissions, and integrate CrowdSec threat intelligence to protect backends. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

TLSPROXY puts automatic Let's Encrypt TLS in front of every service on your server, so many names can share one port while each backend gets exactly the encryption treatment it needs. Terminate TLS and hand plain text to a local service. Pass raw TLS straight through when the proxy should see nothing. Or terminate and re-encrypt towards a TLS backend, with client certificates checked on the way in. QUIC and HTTP/3 connections terminate here too, and Encrypted Client Hello keeps even the handshake private. Certificates arrive and renew by themselves through http-01 and tls-alpn-01 challenges, PROXY protocol headers preserve real client addresses, and SNI routing with round-robin balancing spreads names across backends. People get in with OpenID Connect, SAML, or passkeys; the same sign-in can mint short-lived SSH user certificates, and built-in certificate authorities manage client and backend credentials for you. Static sites can be served straight from disk, TPM-backed keys keep private material in hardware, and a built-in console shows what the proxy is doing. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Gately keeps your domain names current, forwards ports, terminates HTTPS, and blocks hostile traffic from one admin console, so a server or home network needs no pile of separate gateway tools. Dynamic DNS updates records at Cloudflare, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, DNSPod, Huawei Cloud, Route 53, OVHcloud, Gandi, Namecheap, DuckDNS, and other providers, finding the public address over IPv4 or IPv6 by URL, network interface, or command. Port forwarding relays TCP and UDP with port ranges, failover targets, connection limits, traffic statistics, and PROXY protocol, while SNI routing lets several services share port 443. Certificates are issued and renewed through ACME with DNS-01 wildcards or HTTP-01, then pushed to other hosts over SSH. Web services add per-domain reverse proxies, redirects, and static sites with HTTP/3, WebSocket, load balancing, health checks, rate limiting, caching, and sign-in through OIDC, GitHub, Google, or TOTP-protected shared users. A WAF running the OWASP Core Rule Set and fail2ban-style jails with trap ports and nftables bans guard the edge. Manage Docker containers and Compose projects with one-click upgrades and rollback, open SSH sessions with an SFTP file manager, run ping, traceroute, and speed tests, and receive alerts in Telegram, Discord, Slack, ntfy, or email. An audit log, config history with diff and rollback, encrypted backups, scoped API tokens, and Prometheus metrics round it out. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Created to eliminate the configuration fragmentation plaguing multi-device Homelab setups and small-team infrastructures, NetsGo merges what typically requires three separate tools — a tunnel daemon, a management panel, and a monitoring stack — into a single Go binary that starts with one command and listens on one port. The server exposes HTTP, TCP, and UDP tunnels, a built-in Web console for node management, a REST API for automation, and real-time traffic statistics with per-client bandwidth limiting, all sharing default port 9527 so firewalls and reverse proxies need only a single rule. Version 0.1.11 introduced Client-to-Client P2P tunnels via WebRTC DataChannel with three selectable transport strategies — Server relay, Prefer P2P with automatic fallback, and P2P only — reducing latency for direct connections while maintaining the centralized control plane. The management console displays every connected client's online status, authentication tokens, tunnel configuration, active transport mode, P2P candidate gathering progress, and cumulative byte-level traffic counters updated every second. Unlike frp or rathole which delegate management to external plugins or configuration files, NetsGo provides built-in client key generation, tunnel target migration between nodes, SOCKS5 proxying, IP-whitelist console access, and one-command server upgrades. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

A self-hosted front door for apps that live on home labs, office LANs, and private clusters, Wiredoor publishes them to the internet without opening a single inbound port on the private side. The Wiredoor CLI on each remote machine dials out to the server over an encrypted WireGuard tunnel. Web apps and APIs are routed by domain and path, WebSocket traffic included, while TCP and UDP services such as SSH or Redis get a public port of their own. Public domains receive Let's Encrypt certificates, internal names fall back to self-signed ones, and Cloudflare or GoDaddy credentials let the server create DNS records itself. Any web route can demand OAuth2 sign-in with an email allow list and a few open paths, and every protocol accepts IP allow lists. Gateway nodes stretch one tunnel across a Docker network, Kubernetes cluster, or private subnet, so a single link serves many backends. Services can be switched off or given an expiry such as 30 minutes, 2 hours, or 1 day. The dashboard shows which nodes are connected and whether their services are enabled, while the CLI creates, enables, and disables services from a terminal. Optional Prometheus and Grafana views chart traffic and tunnel peers, and CrowdSec can block abusive addresses. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Combining Docker container labels with a live web control plane, DockFlare automates Cloudflare Tunnel ingress routing, multi-zone DNS records, and Zero Trust Access policies across self-hosted infrastructure. DevOps engineers and homelab operators can attach simple container labels to expose HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, SSH, and RDP services publicly in seconds without clicking through external cloud dashboards. For non-containerized workloads such as bare-metal hypervisors or network appliances, administrators can define manual ingress rules, path-based routes, custom TLS SNI headers, and origin certificate bypass flags directly in the web interface. Security teams use reusable Access Groups and wildcard zone policies to enforce Google, GitHub, Azure AD, or custom OIDC authentication across every subdomain from a single policy definition. Distributed deployments connect lightweight remote agents back to the primary controller using Zero Trust service tokens so multi-host clusters share one unified routing view. When containers stop or restart, configurable grace-period timers prevent accidental route churn before cleaning up stale DNS entries, while encrypted state backups protect your entire ingress configuration. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Put one governed doorway in front of every service you run: Apache ShenYu is an API gateway that proxies, secures, and manages traffic for HTTP, Dubbo, gRPC, WebSocket, and MQTT backends from a single entry point. Every request flows through an ordered, hot-pluggable plugin chain, so you compose exactly the behavior each route needs instead of accepting a fixed gateway feature set. Selectors give you coarse, service-level routing and rules refine it down to individual methods, matched against headers, paths, and parameters. Authentication and edge security come from JWT, OAuth 2.0, request-signing, and WAF plugins, while rate limiting, circuit breaking, and load balancing protect fragile upstreams from traffic spikes. You reshape calls in flight with request, response, and parameter mapping, and convert protocols so a gRPC or Dubbo service answers ordinary HTTP clients. Newer releases add AI gateway plugins that proxy LLM calls with prompt processing, token limits, and sensitive-word filtering, plus an MCP server plugin for exposing tools to AI agents. The ShenYu Admin console on its own port manages plugins, selectors, rules, users, and permissions, then pushes changes live to every gateway replica over WebSocket, ZooKeeper, Nacos, etcd, or HTTP long polling. Metrics, tracing, and logging plugins stream operational data to Kafka or Elasticsearch, and client SDKs for Java, Go, Python, and .NET let services register themselves automatically. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

KrakenD processes over 18,000 requests per second on a single instance while consuming under 50MB of RAM at 1,000 concurrent connections, operating as a stateless API gateway that requires no database whatsoever. The Community Edition has earned over 2,600 GitHub stars by outperforming database-dependent alternatives like Kong and Tyk in independent benchmarks. Written entirely in Go, it uses declarative JSON or YAML configuration files that integrate directly into GitOps workflows for version-controlled infrastructure management. The gateway aggregates responses from multiple backend services into a single API call, transforms request and response payloads with field filtering, grouping, and mapping, and applies zero-trust security policies including JWT validation, OAuth 2.0, CORS, HSTS, clickjacking protection, and XSS prevention. Traffic management features include multi-layer rate limiting at both the router and proxy levels, circuit breakers for backend fault isolation, spike arrest policies, and concurrent call support that requests the same data from multiple backends in parallel for improved response times. Telemetry integrates with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana dashboards, Datadog, Zipkin, and Jaeger for distributed tracing and metrics collection. The gateway extends through Go plugins, Lua scripting, Martian modifiers, and Google CEL expressions for custom request processing logic. AI workload routing supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and other model endpoints with built-in fallback, retries, and load balancing. Deploy via Docker with the devopsfaith/krakend image as a single binary. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.