Shadowsocks-libev
Reverse Proxy & GatewaysLightweight encrypted SOCKS5 proxy
Replaces commercial VPN proxies
2 self-hosted projects maintained by shadowsocks on GitHub — combined community: 20,917 GitHub stars.
Everything shadowsocks ships here sits in one category, reverse proxy & gateways, so these projects are best read as alternatives or companions to each other. Shadowsocks-libev is the flagship at 16,184 stars — Lightweight encrypted SOCKS5 proxy. 1 of 2 are written primarily in C. The oldest dates from 2014 and the newest from 2017. 2 publish a Docker deployment path.
| Projects | 2 |
|---|---|
| Combined stars | 20,917 |
| Hosted on | GitHub |
| Languages | C (1), Go (1) |
| Licenses | GPL-3.0 (1), Apache-2.0 (1) |
| Setup difficulty | Medium (2) |
| Min. RAM range | 32 MB |
| First releases | 2014–2017 |