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traefik vs goshs
traefik has 65,024 GitHub stars, 6,215 forks, 939 open issues and last shipped today. goshs has 987 stars, 58 forks, 0 open issues and last shipped 3 days ago. traefik leads on adoption by 6,488% (65,024 vs 987 stars). traefik is written in Go under MIT; goshs is written in Go under MIT. traefik has attracted 10% as many forks as stars, goshs 6%. traefik was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (golang), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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Side by side
| traefik | goshs | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 65K | ★ 987 |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Go | Go |
| Last push | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-28 |
| Forks | ⑂ 6.2K | ⑂ 58 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick traefik if
- You weight community size — 65K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick goshs if
- You want the goshs feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and goshs fits your workflow better
About traefik
Traefik — pronounced traffic — is "The Cloud Native Application Proxy": an MIT licensed, Go based HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that watches your orchestrator or service registry and generates its own routes, aimed at teams running microservices on Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes, Consul, Etcd, Rancher v2, or Amazon ECS.
read the full traefik overview →
About goshs
goshs is a single binary file server written in Go for red teamers, CTF players, and developers who need more capability than python3 m http.server without configuring Apache.
read the full goshs overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is traefik or goshs more popular?
traefik has 65,024 GitHub stars and goshs has 987. traefik has the larger community by that measure.
Are traefik and goshs free?
Both are open source. traefik is licensed under MIT and goshs under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between traefik and goshs?
traefik is written in Go and goshs in Go. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, traefik or goshs?
Choose traefik if you want the larger community (65,024 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose goshs if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.