Monitoring / Analytics / Infra

Nginx Proxy Manager on VPS

Web UI for managing Nginx reverse proxy hosts with free SSL

GitHub stars
34512
License
MIT
Docker
Yes
GPU
Not required

Requirements

Minimum and recommended VPS specs

Badges are attached to each value. An estimate is never presented as an official project requirement.

Nginx Proxy Manager hardware requirements
ResourceMinimumRecommended
RAM512MB Estimated1GB Estimated
CPU1 Estimated1 Estimated
Disk5GB EstimatedNot stated Not stated

Disk figures describe the application footprint recorded in the dataset. Personal media, documents, backups and other user data can require substantially more storage.

RunOnVPS sizing suggestion

Suggested VPS tier

1 GB RAM tier

This is our sizing suggestion, derived from Nginx Proxy Manager’s recommended RAM of 1GB. It is not an official requirement and it does not guarantee that every workload, plug-in set or media library will fit comfortably.

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Deployment

Docker & GPU

Docker support: Yes

GPU: Not required

Check the source notes below before assuming a GPU, transcoding workload or machine-learning feature is included in the baseline deployment.

Commercial alternative

What it can replace

NGINX Plus

Nginx Proxy Manager is catalogued here as a self-hosted alternative to NGINX Plus. Feature parity varies, so compare your required workflow before migrating.

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Important notes

Stars/license checked 2026-10-24. Official README Quick Setup requires only Docker / Docker Compose and gives a bare-minimum compose file (built-in SQLite database) — 官方未标明 RAM/CPU/磁盘,均为基于官方 Docker 默认部署的估算. Distributed only as a pre-built Docker image (jc21/nginx-proxy-manager).

Data source: https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager

Project repository: https://github.com/NginxProxyManager/nginx-proxy-manager

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