pingooio/pingoo
The fast and secure Load Balancer / API Gateway / Reverse Proxy with built-in service discovery, GeoIP, WAF, bot protection and much more - https://pingoo.io observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
58/100
- Activity 91
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 25
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 350
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 55
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1027 stars · 41 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Pingoo is a self-hosted load balancer, API gateway, and reverse proxy written in Rust, positioned as an open-source alternative to Cloudflare, Akamai, and Fastly. It bundles automatic post-quantum HTTPS/TLS, service discovery (Docker, DNS), a web application firewall, bot protection, GeoIP/ASN filtering, TCP proxying, and static site serving into a single high-performance binary with no enterprise edition.
Use cases
- self-host a cloudflare alternative on my own servers
- reverse proxy with built-in web application firewall
- protect my api from bots and scrapers
- load balance http and tcp traffic across backend services
- api gateway with rate limiting and geoip country blocking
- automatic https tls certificate termination
- service discovery for docker containers
- block traffic by country or ASN
When to choose
- You want Cloudflare/Akamai/Fastly-style edge features (WAF, bot protection, GeoIP, TLS) running on your own servers so user traffic never leaves your infrastructure
- You need load balancing, service discovery, and API gateway functionality consolidated into one lightweight Rust binary instead of gluing together nginx, fail2ban, and custom scripts
- You are frustrated with 'Enterprise Edition' paywalls in nginx/haproxy ecosystems and want core proxy security features under a permissive MIT license
When to avoid
- You need a battle-tested proxy with decades of production hardening and a massive plugin/module ecosystem, where nginx, HAProxy, or Envoy are safer bets
- You prefer a fully managed CDN/WAF service and do not want to operate and scale your own edge infrastructure
- You depend on a specific advanced feature that is still listed as coming soon on Pingoo's roadmap rather than shipped today
Facets
service · maturity active
api-gateway proxy service-discovery security http-server rate-limiting networking web-development backend security networking apis self-hosted self-hosted rust reverse-proxy load-balancer waf bot-protection anti-bot geoip quic post-quantum-tls cloudflare-alternative captcha ssl-termination tcp-proxy linux docker web-server
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/pingooio/pingoo · fetched 2026-08-28 · 9b990ca7825b
- homepage: https://pingoo.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6617b7cae7e6
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| pingooio/pingoo | main | 58 |
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