Self-hosted projects tagged “HTTP”

Uptime Kuma is a self-hosted uptime monitoring tool for HTTP(S), TCP, ping, DNS and more, with notifications, charts, and public status pages.

MITActively maintained

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UptimeRobot+15

NGINX is a high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy with caching, load balancing, TLS termination, and TCP/UDP proxying via a modular architecture.

BSD-2-ClauseActively maintained

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NGINX Management Suite+2

Alternative open source firmware for ESP8266/ESP32 IoT devices, providing local control via MQTT/HTTP/Web UI, OTA updates, and built-in automation rules and timers.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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SONOFF Cloud (eWeLink)+6

Open-source Python framework to build, scale, and deploy multimodal AI services and pipelines with gRPC/HTTP/WebSocket support and Kubernetes/Docker integration.

Apache-2.0Slowing down

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Baseten+12

Fast, security-focused image processing server to resize, transform, optimize, and convert images on demand via URL-based HTTP requests.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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CloudConvert+4

Thumbor is an open-source image processing server for on-demand resizing, smart cropping, format conversion, and filter pipelines via URL-based HTTP requests.

MITActively maintained

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CloudConvert+4

RSS-Bridge is a PHP web app that generates RSS/Atom/JSON feeds by scraping sites that don’t offer feeds, with many built-in “bridges” and caching options.

UnlicenseActively maintained

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FetchRSS+3

OSRM is a high-performance routing engine for OpenStreetMap data, providing an HTTP API for routing, map matching, distance tables, and more.

BSD-2-ClauseActively maintained

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Mapbox+1

iodine is a DNS tunneling tool that forwards IPv4 traffic through DNS queries and replies, providing a TUN interface to route IP traffic when only DNS is allowed.

ISCSlowing down

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Cloudflare Tunnel+15

Cross-platform single-binary CLI to serve files and directories over HTTP with directory listings, uploads, authentication, TLS, and WebDAV.

MITActively maintained

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Send Anywhere+8

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.

Actively maintained

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HAProxy Enterprise+10

Open-source API client and HTTP interceptor to test APIs, modify requests and responses, and create API mocks for faster development and debugging.

Actively maintained

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Postman+10

A general-purpose HTTP reverse proxy and forwarding tool for homelabs, offering web UI, ACME/TLS, stream proxy, plugins and realtime monitoring.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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ngrok+16

Lightweight CalDAV/CardDAV server for syncing calendars, to-dos, and contacts with many clients, storing data on the filesystem and supporting auth and TLS.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Calendar+8

sish is an open-source Serveo/ngrok alternative that exposes local HTTP(S), WebSockets, and TCP services to the internet using SSH reverse tunnels.

MITActively maintained

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ngrok+3

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

Slowing down

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Cloudflare CDN+5

OpenSpeedTest is an open-source HTML5 speed test that runs in any modern browser to measure download, upload, ping, and jitter, with optional self-hosted servers.

MITActively maintained

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Speedtest by Ookla+3

Open-source TV streaming server and DVR for Linux supporting DVB/ATSC/IPTV inputs and HTSP/HTTP streaming.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Channels DVR+3

Static Web Server (SWS) is a lightweight, cross-platform Rust web server for serving static files with HTTP/2, TLS, compression, caching headers, and SPA fallbacks.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Apache HTTP Server+5

uStreamer is a lightweight, fast MJPEG-over-HTTP streamer for V4L2 capture devices, optimized for high-FPS HDMI/VGA capture and PiKVM-style KVM over IP use.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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AXIS Camera Station

Simple, robust BitTorrent tracker implementation for Node.js, providing client and server components with HTTP/UDP/WebSocket tracking and built-in stats endpoints.

OpenPrinting CUPS is a standards-based printing system providing IPP print services, printer administration, and command-line tools for Linux and Unix-like systems.

Open-source Rust-based CLI to parse, scale, search, import and serve Cooklang recipes; generates shopping lists, reports, and a browsable web UI.

MITActively maintained

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Paprika Recipe Manager+6

Kiwix Serve is a lightweight HTTP daemon that serves ZIM offline content files, letting users browse Wikipedia and other archives from a local server or LAN.

High-performance Rust proxy supporting HTTP/SOCKS5 forwarding, transparent proxying, TLS MITM, ICAP integration, ACLs, auth, and observability features.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Bright Data+10

Open-source centralized ACME client to manage TLS certificates with automated renewals, API-key retrieval for clients, http-01/dns-01 challenge support, Go backend and React UI.

Actively maintained

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Caddy Cloud+5

Publishes Docker container label-based service definitions into Redis so a central Traefik instance can discover and route services across multiple Docker hosts.

MITActively maintained

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Traefik Cloud+9

Lightweight Prometheus exporter that exposes metrics from the *arr suite (Sonarr, Radarr, Lidarr, etc.) for monitoring and Grafana dashboards.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Grafana Cloud+12

Scalable, modular XMPP/Jabber server written in Java supporting TCP, BOSH, WebSockets, federation, components, HTTP API and push notifications.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Skype+12

Self-hosted HTTP API to render web pages to PNG with configurable viewport, caching, Playwright-based parallel rendering, and S3/CouchDB/filesystem storage.

MITActively maintained

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Urlbox+4