# 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

Repository: https://github.com/pingooio/pingoo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pingoo
Homepage: https://pingoo.io
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: anti-bot, api, api-gateway, captcha, cloudflare, firewall, haproxy, load-balancer, nginx, proxy, reverse-proxy, security, service-discovery, waf, akamai, apache2, fastly, rust, pingoo, quic
Last push: 2026-07-09T16:09:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 58/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 91, release rhythm 35, longevity 25
- inputs: {"age_days": 350, "days_push": 55, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1027, forks 41 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:16.960918+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: api-gateway, proxy, service-discovery, security, http-server, rate-limiting, networking
- domain: web-development, backend, security, networking, apis, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, rust
- tags: 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

## Member repositories
- pingooio/pingoo (main) score 58

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:16.960918+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:07:53.888473+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pingooio/pingoo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:16.960918+00:00, sha 9b990ca7825b)
  - homepage: https://pingoo.io (fetched 2026-08-29T13:08:00.022379+00:00, sha 6617b7cae7e6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.