lua-resty-limit-traffic VS lightpath

Compare lua-resty-limit-traffic vs lightpath and see what are their differences.

lua-resty-limit-traffic

Lua library for limiting and controlling traffic in OpenResty/ngx_lua (by openresty)

lightpath

CDN written in Lua using Openresty and Redis (by taythebot)
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lua-resty-limit-traffic lightpath
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805 28
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5.4 10.0
6 months ago over 2 years ago
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lua-resty-limit-traffic

Posts with mentions or reviews of lua-resty-limit-traffic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-14.
  • Ask HN: What's a good open-source alternative to Cloudflare?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2023
    Openresty with a few Nginx modules and Lua scripts can go a long way for many use-cases mentioned:

    - ModSecurity for WAF: https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity

    - L7 Rate limiting: https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-limit-traffic

    - Cache: https://github.com/ledgetech/ledge . Or use varnish which gives you VCL for high configurability

    - CDN: https://github.com/taythebot/lightpath . This project seems to be a WIP which you can use as a starting point for your needs. You will also need to find good enough "edge" locations for your CDN.

    Similarly, HAProxy does a lot of stuff with the correct config and is also extensible using Lua:

lightpath

Posts with mentions or reviews of lightpath. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-14.
  • Ask HN: What's a good open-source alternative to Cloudflare?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2023
    Openresty with a few Nginx modules and Lua scripts can go a long way for many use-cases mentioned:

    - ModSecurity for WAF: https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity

    - L7 Rate limiting: https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-limit-traffic

    - Cache: https://github.com/ledgetech/ledge . Or use varnish which gives you VCL for high configurability

    - CDN: https://github.com/taythebot/lightpath . This project seems to be a WIP which you can use as a starting point for your needs. You will also need to find good enough "edge" locations for your CDN.

    Similarly, HAProxy does a lot of stuff with the correct config and is also extensible using Lua:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lua-resty-limit-traffic and lightpath you can also consider the following projects:

ledge - An RFC compliant and ESI capable HTTP cache for Nginx / OpenResty, backed by Redis

haproxy_ddos_protector - DDoS protection system PoC for HaProxy

ModSecurity - ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. It has a robust event-based programming language which provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis.