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Ferron vs SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway): catalog facts
Ferron	SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway)
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Windows, Linux, Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Short, readable configuration for sites and reverse proxies Automatic TLS certificate issuance and renewal	Automatic Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL certificate renewal fail2ban included for blocking repeated attacks
Younger project with a smaller ecosystem than Nginx or Caddy Configuration is text-only, with no web interface	Requires Docker Proxy configuration is edited as nginx config files rather than through a GUI
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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