acme.sh
Reverse Proxy & GatewaysPure shell ACME client for TLS certificates
Replaces Certbot
Best No-Database Reverse Proxy & Gateways for self-hosting
The 11 best No-Database reverse proxy & gateways you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
Shadowsocks-libev
Reverse Proxy & GatewaysLightweight encrypted SOCKS5 proxy
Replaces commercial VPN proxies
Fabio
Reverse Proxy & GatewaysZero-config load balancer driven by Consul
Replaces HAProxy, Nginx
Tinyproxy
Reverse Proxy & GatewaysLightweight HTTP and HTTPS forward proxy daemon
Replaces Squid
3proxy
Reverse Proxy & GatewaysTiny multi-protocol proxy server suite
Replaces Squid
sslh
Reverse Proxy & GatewaysProtocol multiplexer that shares one port between services
Replaces HAProxy
relayd
Reverse Proxy & GatewaysOpenBSD load balancer and relay daemon
Replaces HAProxy, F5 BIG-IP
SWAG
Reverse Proxy & GatewaysSecure web application gateway with Nginx and Certbot
Replaces Cloudflare
caddy-l4
Reverse Proxy & GatewaysLayer 4 proxy module for the Caddy server
Replaces HAProxy
Privoxy
Reverse Proxy & GatewaysPrivacy-enhancing web proxy with content filtering
Replaces commercial ad-filtering proxies
Pound
Reverse Proxy & GatewaysLightweight reverse proxy and HTTPS load balancer
Replaces NGINX, HAProxy
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At a glance
| App | Deploy effort | Difficulty | Min. RAM | License | ★ Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| acme.sh | Read-the-docs project | Easy | 32 MB | GPL-3.0 | 47,812 |
| Shadowsocks-libev | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 32 MB | GPL-3.0 | 16,184 |
| Fabio | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 128 MB | MIT | 7,346 |
| Tinyproxy | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 16 MB | GPL-2.0 | 6,021 |
| 3proxy | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 16 MB | BSD-3-Clause | 5,520 |
| sslh | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 32 MB | GPL-2.0 | 5,121 |
| relayd | Read-the-docs project | Hard | 32 MB | ISC | 3,894 |
| SWAG | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 128 MB | GPL-3.0 | 3,739 |
| caddy-l4 | Read-the-docs project | Medium | 64 MB | Apache-2.0 | 1,796 |
| Privoxy | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 32 MB | GPL-3.0 | 200 |
Quick picks
- Most adopted: acme.sh (47,812 GitHub stars).
- Lightest footprint: Tinyproxy (from 16 MB RAM, against 128 MB for the heaviest here).
- Licensing: 5 of 11 use GPL-3.0; check the rest individually if you plan to modify and redistribute.
Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged No-Database within the reverse proxy & gateways category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.