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SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway) vs lighttpd: catalog facts
SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway)	lighttpd
Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the revised BSD licence.
Self-hosted	Linux, Self-hosted
Automatic Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL certificate renewal fail2ban included for blocking repeated attacks	Low memory and CPU use FastCGI, rewriting, compression and auth built in
Requires Docker Proxy configuration is edited as nginx config files rather than through a GUI	Smaller ecosystem of guides than nginx or Apache Official downloads are source tarballs; most users install from distribution packages
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-3.0	License: BSD-3-Clause
Not stated if an account is 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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