Websurfx — Self-Hosted, Open-Source

Features

• 🎨 Make Websurfx uniquely yours with the twelve color schemes provided by default. It also supports the creation of custom themes and color schemes in a quick and easy way, so unleash your creativity!
• 🚀 Easy to setup with Docker or on bare metal with various installation and deployment options.
• ⛔ Search filtering to filter search results based on four different levels.
• 💾 Different caching levels focusing on reliability, speed and resiliancy.
• ⬆️ Organic Search results (with ranking algorithm builtin to rerank the search results according to user's search query.).
• 🔒 Different compression and encryption levels focusing on speed and privacy.
• 🧪 Experimental IO-uring feature for Linux operating systems focused on performance of the engine.
• 🧅 Custom proxy and Tor support for fetching search results from the upstream search engines.
• 🔐 Fast, private, and secure
• 🆓 100% free and open source

Installation

git clone https://github.com/neon-mmd/websurfx.git cd websurfx git checkout stable cargo build -r redis-server --port 8082 & ./target/release/websurfx

Why self-host Websurfx

Self-hosting gives you three things SaaS can’t: data ownership (the files live on disks you control), cost predictability (a one-time setup vs. recurring per-seat fees that grow with your household or team), and longevity (open-source means the app keeps working even if the maintainers move on, since you can pin a working version). The trade-off is that you take on the operational work of running a server, applying updates, and handling backups.

Hardware notes

At present, we only support x86_64 architecture systems, but we would love to have contributions that extend to other architectures as well.

Where to go from here

• Browse the full self-hosted app directory
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