Caddy
Web Servers
Powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS.
Actively maintained
Real momentum
Apache-2.0
Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface.
Nginx Proxy Manager is an open-source web servers project, with 34k GitHub stars and a health score of 72/100. It committed 736 times in the last twelve months across 10 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: MIT. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.
| Status | Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-06-10 |
| Days since last commit | 68 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 24 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 736 |
| Months with activity | 10 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-06-03 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | MIT |
| Category | Web Servers |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
Nginx Proxy Manager is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.
Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.
Actively maintained. Nginx Proxy Manager recorded 736 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 10 of those months and 24 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-06-10. Last release: 2026-06-03. Committed within the last 45 days.
Nginx Proxy Manager is published under MIT. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
19 open-source implementations, 14 of them actively maintained, led by Caddy at 75k stars. Saturation score 52/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.
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