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.

zrok puts services that live behind NAT and firewalls onto the public internet with a shareable URL, without opening a single inbound port. The machine being shared dials out to an OpenZiti overlay network, so a web app on your desk, a Raspberry Pi at home, or a staging box inside a corporate network becomes reachable through your instance while its firewall stays closed. One command shares an HTTP service publicly; add a name from one of your namespaces and the URL stays stable even when you move the backend to a different machine, and an ephemeral name can be promoted to a reserved one when a quick demo turns into a keeper. Private shares skip the public internet entirely and reach only the users you grant, including raw TCP and UDP services, while web and drive backend modes publish static sites or whole folders, with OAuth, password auth, and an interstitial warning page available on public shares. The long-running agent keeps every share and access under one process, restarts the named ones after a reboot, and offers a localhost console for point-and-click sharing; the account-wide web console maps your environments, shares, and accesses as a navigable graph or a sortable table with live activity. Operators get invite-based accounts, InfluxDB-backed usage metrics, and configurable limits that warn or cut off accounts that exceed their quotas. 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.

Game servers, home labs behind carrier-grade NAT, and services that need a presence in another region all end up needing the same thing: a cheap entry machine that forwards traffic to the real backend, with rules you can change without opening an SSH session. Relay Panel is the control room for that job, a self-hosted web panel that runs TCP and UDP forwarding across a fleet of lightweight relay nodes from one dashboard. Each rule can fan out to multiple targets with failover or round-robin balancing, follow domain targets as their DDNS records change, and pass the real client IP onward through PROXY protocol, even when relays chain through other relays. Per-rule concurrency caps, scheduled restarts, and automatic target circuit breaking keep one bad upstream from swallowing the whole route. A built-in shop lets users buy plans and top up balances with redemption codes while quotas drain by measured upload plus download, multiplied per line, so premium routes cost more by design. Traffic charts split the last day, week, or month by line, the node page watches CPU, memory, and connection counts, and Telegram or email alerts fire the moment a relay drops offline. Nodes upgrade from the panel in one click, and the first login forces a password change before anything else opens. 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.

3X-UI is the most popular open-source Xray management panel, providing a full-featured web interface for deploying and monitoring proxy and VPN protocols on Linux servers. The Go backend manages Xray-core instances supporting VLESS, VMess, Trojan, Shadowsocks, WireGuard, Hysteria2, HTTP, SOCKS, Dokodemo-door, and TUN inbounds across TCP, mKCP, WebSocket, gRPC, HTTPUpgrade, and XHTTP transports secured with TLS, XTLS Vision, and REALITY. The Clients page tracks each user with individual traffic quotas, expiration dates, concurrent connection limits, and live online status indicators, while one-click share links, QR codes, and a built-in subscription server distribute configurations in multiple output formats. The multi-node architecture manages and scales deployments across multiple servers from a single panel instance. The Panel Settings page configures listen address, port, URI path, session duration, trusted proxy CIDRs, authentication, and Telegram bot integration for remote monitoring and management alerts. Outbound routing supports WARP, NordVPN, custom rules, load balancers, and proxy chaining. Xray Configs provides template-level control over the core configuration, while the API Docs page exposes a complete RESTful API with in-panel Swagger documentation. Data persists in SQLite by default or PostgreSQL for larger deployments, with database export and import from the panel. Fail2ban integration enforces per-client IP limits. On RepoCloud, deploy 3X-UI on a dedicated VPS with Docker, root SSH access, and complete control over your proxy infrastructure, all under the GPL-3.0 license.

Qeli is a self-hosted VPN built for networks where ordinary VPN protocols get recognized and blocked, disguising its traffic as ordinary web traffic while keeping the classic full-tunnel experience. Where WireGuard, OpenVPN, and IKEv2 carry fingerprints that deep packet inspection has learned to spot, Qeli answers with five wire modes: plain, TLS mimicry, ChaCha20 obfuscation behind WebSocket fronting, REALITY, and a flagship mode that carries the private stream inside a genuine HTTP/2 request within a real TLS 1.3 exchange. A probe without a valid token never learns the difference, because the server bridges it to the configured public target site. The handshake is hybrid post-quantum, X25519 plus ML-KEM-768, with a ChaCha20-Poly1305 data plane, and the tunnel itself behaves like the VPNs people already know: full-tunnel or split routing, OS-level DNS, and per-app include or exclude rules on Windows, macOS, and Android. A one-command installer on a clean Debian or Ubuntu server asks for a profile and a port, writes the NAT configuration, creates the first users, and prints ready-to-paste connection links. The web panel then issues qeli:// links and QR codes per person behind an Argon2id login, so onboarding a phone is a camera scan instead of a config file. Clients cover Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and Keenetic and OpenWrt routers, and published lab benchmarks average around 1220 Mbit/s across all twelve profiles. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Running a VPN for family, friends, or a small team usually means babysitting servers one SSH session at a time, and Mistgate replaces that with one panel that keeps the whole fleet configured. Add a server from the browser by typing its address and root password: the panel pins the host key, checks the host, opens the ports, and installs the signed node agent for you. Each person gets one subscription link that their app turns into the server list, or a personal AmneziaVPN key per device, so a lost phone can be revoked without touching anyone else. Groups decide which protocol profiles a person receives, while per-user traffic quotas, expiry dates, device limits, and per-device speed limits keep sharing fair. Hysteria2 brings QUIC-based speed with port hopping, obfuscation, and certificate options; VLESS REALITY and AmneziaWG 2.0 and 3.1 cover networks where one protocol gets blocked, and Cloudflare WARP can serve as the exit for all three. Every five minutes the panel connects to each server the way a real client app would, a doctor on every node runs host checks with safe fixes, and alerts reach you on Telegram before your users notice. The public address shows strangers a decoy site while the admin hides behind a secret path, and encrypted backups go to your Cloudflare R2 bucket on a schedule. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

With over 34,000 GitHub stars and backing from a well-funded engineering team, Tailscale has fundamentally simplified how developers and system administrators think about secure networking. The client daemon establishes WireGuard tunnels directly between devices using sophisticated NAT traversal techniques, achieving direct peer-to-peer connections in the vast majority of network configurations without requiring port forwarding, firewall rules, or VPN concentrators. When direct connections prove impossible due to restrictive network environments, DERP relay servers provide encrypted fallback paths. MagicDNS assigns human-readable hostnames to every device on the network, eliminating the need to remember IP addresses across a tailnet. Subnet routing allows nodes to advertise access to entire local networks, enabling remote access to office resources, home labs, or cloud VPCs through a single gateway node. Exit node functionality routes all internet traffic through a designated device for privacy protection or geographic flexibility. Access control lists define granular policies for which devices and users can communicate with which services, enforced cryptographically at the network layer. The authentication layer integrates with identity providers including Google, Microsoft, GitHub, Apple, and OIDC-compliant systems for single sign-on access. Taildrop enables direct encrypted file transfers between devices without cloud intermediaries. The tailscale CLI provides complete network management from the terminal including status monitoring, route advertisement, and node configuration. Running Tailscale on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console provides a permanent, always-on node in your mesh network. BSD-3-Clause licensed with an active open-source community.

Give every laptop, server, and cloud VM you own one private address that works from anywhere, and that is exactly the overlay network Nebula builds. Each machine runs a single small binary, presents a certificate signed by your own certificate authority, and joins a peer-to-peer layer-3 mesh where tunnels form on demand between hosts that need to talk. Lighthouse nodes, the piece you park on a VPS, keep track of where every peer can be reached and introduce hosts to each other, so machines find each other without any central VPN concentrator carrying their traffic. UDP hole punching and keepalive packets open direct tunnels through home routers and office NAT, and when two hard NATs refuse to cooperate, a relay host forwards the encrypted traffic until a better path appears. Every host enforces its own firewall, default deny on all overlay traffic, with rules keyed to certificate groups, so laptops in the user-endpoint group can reach a server's web port while other groups cannot. Ordinary hosts need no inbound ports at all, and the same binary runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, phones, and FreeBSD, making the mesh feel identical at home, in a datacenter, or across three clouds. Unsafe routes can even pull an existing office subnet into the overlay, giving legacy hardware that will never run Nebula an address on the private network. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Meshlan turns your own Linux server into the control plane for a private virtual LAN that connects remote Windows devices as if they sat on the same router. Devices pair through your server, receive their certificates, and then talk directly to each other over encrypted tunnels whenever NAT allows, using dual-stack hole punching, UPnP, and STUN diagnostics to find a path. When a direct connection is impossible, traffic falls back to relays, and multiple relay nodes are chosen automatically by latency, jitter, packet loss, and health. You can publish a service that only listens on localhost, a local API, a web panel, a database, a game server, to the mesh on a custom port, with direct access or manual approval by its creator. Names stay stable while addresses change: devices answer to names like alice.mesh and services to api.alice.mesh, and an HTTPS gateway serves mesh websites without port numbers. Files move directly between devices over the encrypted link while the server only distributes metadata. The console shows the live topology with P2P and relay paths, latency, and service health, and local history keeps traffic and events for replay with a time slider. Optional AI automation keeps model keys on the server, encrypts context end to end, and asks for your confirmation before changing anything. Signed updates verify and roll back automatically when a health check fails. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Wag is an authentication gateway for WireGuard that lets each device reach only the routes it should, and asks for a second factor before the sensitive ones open. Admins write access policies for everyone, groups, or single users, marking subnets, hosts, ports, and protocols as MFA-required, always allowed, or denied, and the most specific prefix wins, so one allowed address can sit inside a protected range. Devices join with a registration token, and the public endpoint answers with a finished WireGuard profile. Users then confirm a TOTP code, a WebAuthn security key, an OIDC single sign-on login that maps identity provider groups into Wag groups, or a PAM prompt, and repeated failures lock the account. Session lifetime and idle timeouts decide when they must prove themselves again. The browser portal lists users, devices, rules, registration tokens, and webhooks with real-time notifications, while a command line locks devices, resets MFA, and manages administrators. Webhooks turn JSON from an HR or identity system into new tokens or removed users and devices, and clients can fetch the list of guarded routes from a small API. Remote staff, contractors limited to one host, and homelabs are typical uses. When a server fails, the VPN remains reachable through clustering with witness nodes or an external etcd, and certificates arrive through ACME with HTTP-01 or Cloudflare DNS-01. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. BSD-3-Clause licensed.

Behind one admin panel, DefGuard runs a WireGuard VPN, an identity provider, and multi-factor authentication, so every person and device proves who they are before reaching your private network. Administrators define VPN locations, assign which users and groups may enter each one, and enforce firewall rules that allow or deny traffic per location, with changes applied to gateways in real time. People enroll remotely through a guided self-service flow, register their own laptops and phones, and connect with desktop and mobile clients that show live connection statistics. Sign-in goes well beyond passwords, because the built-in OpenID Connect provider gives internal tools single sign-on, while TOTP codes, WebAuthn and FIDO2 keys, email tokens, and mobile biometrics gate each connection. Directory teams sync accounts from LDAP and Active Directory, or federate sign-in through Google, Microsoft, and custom OpenID providers, instead of maintaining a separate user list. Every authentication, enrollment, and policy change lands in a searchable activity log, and webhooks plus a REST API let surrounding systems react to access events automatically. Gateways keep enforcing access from a local cache when the control plane is unreachable, and several gateways can front the same location for failover. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 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.

Tunnel Panel manages GRE tunnels and port forwarding on Linux servers from a web panel that previews every change before it runs and verifies the result against the kernel. Create GRE, GRETAP, IP6GRE, and IP6GRETAP tunnels and see the exact commands, unit file, and rollback before anything is applied. The far end configures itself from a pairing code, as text or QR, with the sides flipped automatically so the two ends cannot disagree by a typo. Native ICMP probing with hysteresis keeps a single dropped packet from flapping a tunnel between down and back, and when ICMP is filtered the panel knocks over TCP and says so instead of crying wolf. Forward any TCP or UDP port, or a whole range, with round-robin, source-hash, or weighted balancing across destinations, and a backend that stops answering its health knock leaves the ruleset until it recovers. Watch every connection crossing the relay, who connected, which destination took them, and how much has moved, and set traffic limits per tunnel, rule, or destination. When something breaks, diagnostics reach a verdict with evidence and a suggested fix, backed by a streaming manual probe and a path-MTU search that offers to apply its findings. The panel reads your kernel's relay limits, recommends values from the host's memory and cores, and refuses changes that would lock you out of your own server. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Torollo is a hands-on backend engineering lab where the architecture you draw becomes real infrastructure, so a load balancer on the canvas is an actual Nginx container and a firewall rule you sketch is enforced by iptables. Place Ubuntu servers, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and RabbitMQ nodes, wire them into VPCs and subnets, then watch the traffic simulator send requests through the topology you built. Guided roadmaps walk you from a single web server to a resilient three-tier application, a cache-aside Redis design, and a worker queue, grading every step against the live system instead of your intentions. Validators probe container status, SQL schemas, Redis keys, network reachability, and HTTP responses, and a failed check explains exactly what was expected versus what your containers actually did. Built-in explorers let you run SQL against Postgres, query MongoDB collections, and issue Redis commands, while browser terminals give you a shell inside any node. Roadmaps are plain JSON files you can import or author yourself, progress is tracked per step with hints and solutions, and the whole catalogue is available in English and French. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.