go-doxy
Lightweight, simple, and performant reverse proxy with WebUI, Docker integration, automatic shutdown/startup for container based on traffic.
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Still maintained? Yes: 185 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.32.4 (Oct 2026).
At a glance
go-doxy quick facts
- Health score
- 94/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 4,168
- Last commit
- 3 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.32.4, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "A lightweight, simple, and performant reverse proxy with WebUI."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
go-doxy scores 94/100, #11 of 19 in Web Servers: 185 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.32.4, 3 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 4,168 stars add 14.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 5.5 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
185 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.32.4 released 3 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 14.5 / 20
4.2k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 185
- Last 90 days
- 842
- Last 12 months
- 3 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #11 of 19 tools in Web Servers by health , between Algernon (#10) and SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway) (#12) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Docker, Go |
| Latest release | v0.32.4 · 3 days ago |
| Stars | 4,168 |
| Open issues | 8 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | yusing/godoxy ↗ |
go-doxy vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with go-doxy (Web Servers), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traefik | 99 | 65k | MIT | today |
| NGINX | 98 | 32k | BSD-2-Clause | yesterday |
| Nginx Proxy Manager | 98 | 35k | MIT | 10 days ago |
| Pangolin | 97 | 23k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| SafeLine | 97 | 23k | GPL-3.0 | 8 days ago |
| go-doxy (this tool) | 94 | 4.2k | MIT | 3 days ago |
go-doxy: common questions
Is go-doxy still maintained?
go-doxy had 185 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 days ago; the latest tagged release, v0.32.4, is from 3 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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