MyIP vs Traefik
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted reverse proxy & gateways options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare MyIP with
choose an app… Caddy Pi-hole acme.sh mitmproxy Kong Gateway Istio AdGuard Home NPS Nginx Proxy Manager
Compare Traefik with
choose an app… Caddy Pi-hole acme.sh mitmproxy Kong Gateway Istio AdGuard Home NPS Nginx Proxy Manager Nginx Envoy Authelia Pingora authentik SafeLine Pangolin Anubis Ingress-NGINX DDNS-Go Apache APISIX Shadowsocks-libev flaresolverr LibreSpeed OAuth2 Proxy CrowdSec CoreDNS cert-manager OpenResty dnscrypt-proxy Tengine Linkerd FrankenPHP SmartDNS imgproxy Tyk BunkerWeb lego YARP Technitium DNS Server ExternalDNS Tinyauth iodine Fabio Blocky HAProxy dae Tinyproxy NGINX Unit 3proxy Zoraxy WireGuard UI sslh Tor Browser Pomerium go-shadowsocks2 sish Caddy Docker Proxy Emissary-ingress Apache HTTP Server Varnish Cache Kuma Contour relayd go-doxy Coraza WAF Speed Test by OpenSpeedTest™ mosdns Sozu SWAG Skipper Squid Algernon Canary Tokens MySpeed Gateway API Sablier KrakenD Angie Syslog-ng River Static Web Server beelzebub Traefik Mesh gobetween Apache Traffic Server Maza ad blocking frp-panel Adguard Home Sync Træfik Hub Note Caddy-L4 UUSEC WAF OpenResty Manager Pingap Ehco SimpleTorrent g3proxy Unifi-controller ctrld HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Gravitee API Management HAProxy Data Plane API Chromium Duck DNS Traefik Geoblock Cloudflare DDNS Privoxy Wakupator socks5-proxy-server Pound gandi-livedns Urbit Holesail Switchboard Adguard Firefox Lighttpd Remmina Tor Snowflake Proxy Twingate Vinyl Cache
Feature MyIP Traefik Category Reverse Proxy & Gateways Reverse Proxy & Gateways License MIT MIT Language JavaScript Go Setup difficulty Medium Medium Min. RAM 512 MB 128 MB Deployment docker docker, kubernetes, helm GitHub stars ★ 11,499 ★ 64,330 First released 2026 2015 Replaces — HAProxy, AWS ELB
Why pick each one
Choose MyIP if… Released under the MIT license First-class Docker support for quick deployment Mature project with 11.5k GitHub stars Written in JavaScript MyIP details Choose Traefik if… Released under the MIT license First-class Docker support for quick deployment Kubernetes-ready with Helm charts available Mature project with 64.3k GitHub stars Traefik details
Frequently asked questions Is MyIP or Traefik better? Neither is universally better. Traefik has the larger community; both share a medium setup difficulty, so the decision comes down to features and licensing.
Are MyIP and Traefik free and open-source? Yes. MyIP is licensed under MIT and Traefik under MIT. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run MyIP and Traefik with Docker? MyIP: yes. Traefik: yes.