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8 self-hosted Imperva CDN alternatives

Imperva CDN is a global content delivery network that accelerates and caches web content to reduce latency and improve availability. It integrates with Imperva security services, including DDoS protection and a web application firewall (WAF), to secure and optimize web traffic.

Alternatives to Imperva CDN

SafeLine is a self-hosted Web Application Firewall (WAF) and reverse proxy that defends web apps from SQL injection, XSS, bot abuse, and DDoS using ML-powered threat detection and configurable policies.

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22k stars1.5k forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Anubis is a lightweight web AI firewall that protects sites from AI crawlers and scraping bots using configurable request challenges and bot policies.

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21k stars657 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

BunkerWeb is an open-source WAF and NGINX-based reverse proxy to protect web apps and APIs with HTTPS automation, security policies, and extensible plugins.

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10.8k stars636 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

HAProxy is a fast, reliable reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP and HTTP applications, providing high availability, TLS termination, health checks, and traffic routing.

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6.7k stars953 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Varnish Cache is a high-performance HTTP reverse proxy cache for accelerating web applications and APIs with flexible caching rules and detailed request logging.

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4.1k stars394 forkslast commit Actively maintained

High-performance web application firewall and API security gateway with semantic detection, rule management, and reverse-proxy deployment for protecting websites and APIs.

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1.7k stars168 forksBSD-2-Clauselast commit Actively maintained

NetGoat is a self-hostable reverse proxy and traffic management platform offering Cloudflare-like features such as TLS termination, rate limiting, WAF-style filtering, and dashboards.

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888 stars47 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Squid is a high-performance caching proxy that accelerates web delivery, reduces bandwidth usage, and provides extensive access controls for proxy and reverse-proxy setups.

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What replacing Imperva CDN actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 7 of 8 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: GPL-3.0, MIT, AGPL-3.0, BSD-2-Clause. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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