this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
48 points (94.4% liked)

Selfhosted

48688 readers
1853 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Hello, I am looking for a alternative to HA Proxy, as the GUI options for it, are both third-party and not very good looking, also I just want to know about the alternatives, what I am looking in a high availability setup is the ability to detect if a server is offline, and route to other servers, as well as other HA goodies.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

If your requirement is a GUI, you're not going to find anything. HA Proxy is also the most performant out of anything out there last I looked, and it's got one of the simplest configuration setups.

  • Traefik: kinda slow, mostly meant for large numbers of microservices, pretty verbose configuration
  • Envoy: middle of the road, also most meant for cloud services, but should work with anything
  • nginx: does have a popular 3rd party GUI, seems to be confusing for most that don't work with it a lot
  • caddy: fewer LB specific options if you're just talking about service routing and response time, pretty easy to confirm for most, and some sort of decent 3rd party UIs, but they won't have all the options available.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I can confirm caddy is more of a high availability proxy than a proper load balancer, but it does it's job and has an api you can hook up to a gui if you want. Or like I do - to a config repo with ci/cd deployment.

load more comments (3 replies)