The best reverse proxies, according to hackers
7 reverse proxies recommended in Hacker News comments over the past year, ranked by how many separate people recommend each one.
- Most recommendedPangolin37 people recommend it
- Least regretNginx Proxy Manager10 recommend, 0 criticize
- Free and lovedTraefik27 people recommend it
All reverse proxies
- PangolinSelf-hosted tunnel and reverse proxy that keeps home services off the public internet and replaces Cloudflare Tunnels. Critics say the enterprise edition is wrongly called open source.37recommend
- TraefikPeople recommend Traefik for automatic Docker and Kubernetes routing, plus hands-off HTTPS certificates and easy setup. Critics note ingress annotation handling is inconsistent and some version updates break setups.27recommend
- HAProxyFast, stable load balancer and proxy that people use for TLS termination, HTTP load balancing and fronting self-hosted services.24recommend
- Envoy ProxyRecommended as a reverse proxy and API gateway, valued for zero-downtime configuration changes and extensibility. The common caveat is that its configs are complex and hard for humans to maintain.14recommend
- Nginx Proxy ManagerA web-based reverse proxy that people recommend for its easy GUI setup, TLS/SSL certificate handling and wildcard certs. No caveat recurs among the quotes.10recommend
- Kubernetes Ingress NGINXStable, flexible Kubernetes ingress controller that people say just worked and ran in production. Critics note it is being retired, with maintainership shortfalls and recent critical vulnerabilities.8recommend
- Tailscale ServeLets you host a web service directly on your Tailscale network, with valid certificates, as an alternative to Cloudflare tunnels.5recommend