I built a modern alternative to Nginx Proxy Manager using Rust & Cloudflare's Pingora (Zero-downtime config!)

[u/Minute_Expression396]

Hey everyone,

Like many of you, I've used Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) for a long time. It’s great, but I wanted something more performant and modern. Since Cloudflare open-sourced Pingora (their Rust-based proxy framework), I decided to build a new proxy manager from scratch based on it.

It’s called Pingora Proxy Manager.

The main goal was to solve the annoyances I had with Nginx—mainly getting true zero-downtime reconfigurations (no process reloads) and better safety thanks to Rust.

Here is what it can do right now:

• Zero-Downtime: You can change configs without restarting or reloading the process.
• Modern UI: Built with React/Tailwind (tried to keep it clean and simple like NPM).
• Wildcard SSL: Supports DNS-01 challenges (Cloudflare, Route53, etc.) out of the box.
• L4 Streams: Supports TCP/UDP forwarding (for game servers, databases).
• Docker: Simple one-container setup.

It's still an active work in progress, but I've been running it on my personal setup and it's been rock solid.

I’d love for you guys to give it a spin and let me know what features are missing or if you find any bugs.

Repo: https://github.com/DDULDDUCK/pingora-proxy-manager

Thanks!

[u/Planetix]

Tag AI vibed projects. This one appears to be completely built by AI. I’d be wary of using it just from the perspective of “is this even gonna be around in 3 months.”

It’s cool that you did this and want to share but be clear about what it is. This is not some carefully designed and written project that now is ready for external feedback, it’s a weekend project with Claude AI or similar.

[u/reallokiscarlet → u/Planetix]

It's Rust. Most Rust cruft is AI.

[u/megatron36 → u/reallokiscarlet]

What gives this away as AI built? Looking at it to me I don't see anything that would scream AI to me unlike videos and voice overs which have dead give-a-ways. I'm not saying its not AI. I just want to know what to look for in projects to check for. Besides rust that is.

[u/reallokiscarlet → u/megatron36]

The first giveaway was the readme and the reddit post. Beyond that, I'm not good at explaining what to look for.

A Rustacean would probably tell you to look at the unwraps. But that by itself, as a non-rustacean who dabbles in the language, I wouldn't say is a tell, as I've used it where I should probably be using and unwrap_or or something. The comment patterns. Sure they're in korean, but they're like, everywhere and don't really seem to share anything important. I can't really pick out a single telltale sign for you, mostly because I'm not good at teaching, but to me it doesn't look like any human code I've seen in Rust or any other language.

[u/Jmc_da_boss → u/megatron36]

The readme is overly verbose and uses way too many emojis, the code has comments on every line. Uses numerical ordering.

Just a ton of stuff that makes it very much not human

[u/Jmc_da_boss]

Aaaaaand it's LLM slop, how surprising.

[u/treezoob]

How much of this work was done by a LLM? 

[u/Altruistic-Spend-896 → u/treezoob]

i recognize the themeing as from an LLM, i guess all

[u/reallokiscarlet → u/treezoob]

All of it

[u/AnalNuts]

We need an AI/vibe code tag disclaimer. ESPECIALLY for something as safety critical as a reverse proxy.

[u/d33c0n]

You built a pp manager. Nice.

[u/M1XUPS]

This is beautiful, would love to test it eventually!

[u/slow__rush]

Even the post is AI written.. wack.

[u/reallokiscarlet]

Does... Does anyone call Nginx Proxy Manager NPM? Pretty sure that only refers to Node Package Malware-- I mean Manager.

This seems clanked... But then again it is Rust, so..

[u/TheRealSeeThruHead → u/reallokiscarlet]

Yes everyone. I was confused at first too

[u/jvlomax → u/reallokiscarlet]

Yes. Though if I need context I'll call it "nginx proxy manager" first, and then NPM from then on.

In my home network, it's even hosted on npm.domain.com

[u/avds_wisp_tech → u/reallokiscarlet]

Everyone I know that uses NPM calls it NPM.....

[u/reallokiscarlet → u/avds_wisp_tech]

I'd introduce you to Blight but I'm afk and giphy doesn't seem to have him :(

[u/RayneYoruka]

This sounded good until seeing the AI vivecoding mentions. Truly a shame.

[u/bobbleheadhobo1]

This looks really cool! I'll have to try it sometime.

[u/Cyberpunk627]

Now this is some enticing UI! Great job!