ferronweb/ferron

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Ferron is a fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust with automatic TLS certificate management via Let's Encrypt. It offers static file serving, reverse proxying with load balancing and health checks, and simple KDL-based configuration with secure defaults.

Use cases

• serve a static website with automatic https
• reverse proxy for backend apps with load balancing
• self-host a website with free tls certificates from lets encrypt
• replace nginx or caddy with a simpler rust web server
• host multiple sites on one server with per-host configuration
• set up a production web server in minutes with docker
• serve static files with precompression and caching

When to choose

• you want automatic TLS with zero manual certificate setup
• you prefer simple, readable configuration over nginx-style directive sprawl
• you need a memory-safe, high-performance server for static sites or reverse proxying
• you want a modern alternative to Caddy or nginx with packages for Debian, RHEL, Windows, and Docker

When to avoid

• you need an extremely mature ecosystem with decades of community modules like nginx or Apache
• you require advanced features only available in beta (Ferron 3 is pre-release)
• you depend on complex third-party module ecosystems or .htaccess-style per-directory configs

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http-server web-framework proxy security compression auth web-development backend self-hosted networking security windows bsd cross-platform reverse-proxy automatic-tls lets-encrypt rust static-file-serving load-balancing http2 kdl-config cgi acme devops linux macos docker web-server

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