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BurrowGate
Self-hosted reverse proxy and access gateway
BurrowGate sits between the internet and your servers. It terminates TLS, routes traffic, blocks bots and scrapers, adds browser challenges and logins with 2FA, and shows every request on a live dashboard. Open source, one Docker container, no account needed.
BurrowGate started because every service I self-host sits behind a reverse proxy, and the proxy was never the whole job. I would add fail2ban, then rate limiting, then a separate dashboard to see who was hitting my servers, then something to put a login in front of the apps that have no auth of their own...
So this is the version where one container does it. It terminates TLS and gets Let's Encrypt certificates on its own, routes by hostname, load balances across origins with health checks, identifies and blocks bots, applies rate limits and IP, ASN or country policy, can put a proof-of-work or captcha challenge in front of a visitor, and can require a login with TOTP or a security key before a request ever reaches the app behind it. Every request shows up in a live dashboard with a world map, and you can replay any captured request with edited headers to see what the origin does.
It's open source under EUPL-1.2. No paid tier, no hosted version, no enterprise edition held back. You run it, you own the data, and the only outbound request it makes is an hourly check for a new release, which one setting turns off.
Getting started is four commands and a Docker Compose file. It generates its own admin password and a temporary certificate on first boot, then you add a site and click to issue a real certificate.
Happy to answer anything here today, and I would like to hear what would stop you from putting it in front of your own services.
About BurrowGate on Product Hunt
“Self-hosted reverse proxy and access gateway”
BurrowGate was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #50 on the daily leaderboard. BurrowGate sits between the internet and your servers. It terminates TLS, routes traffic, blocks bots and scrapers, adds browser challenges and logins with 2FA, and shows every request on a live dashboard. Open source, one Docker container, no account needed.
On the analytics side, BurrowGate competes within Open Source, Developer Tools, GitHub and Security — topics that collectively have 632.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how BurrowGate performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted BurrowGate?
BurrowGate was hunted by Ziga Zajc. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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