sish
sish is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Proxy & VPN category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Go. It is a self-hosted alternative to ngrok and ships a Docker image. It has 4,801 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 4,801
- Forks
- 338
- Open issues
- 22
- Commits, last 12 months
- 36
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- v3.0.5Oct 25, 2026
- Created
- Feb 15, 2019
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 36 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 36 |
| Latest release | v3.0.5 (Oct 25, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 72 |
| Open issues | 22 |
| Open pull requests | 0 |
| Good first issues | 2 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Feb 15, 2019 |
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About sish
HTTP(S)/WS(S)/TCP tunnels to localhost using only SSH (serveo/ngrok alternative).
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/antoniomika/sish.
Topics
- ngrok
- serveo
- ssh
- tunnel
- tcp
- websockets
- http
- https
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Is sish free and open source?
Yes. sish is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run sish with Docker?
Yes. sish provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to sish?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to sish include frp, Headscale and NetBird. sish itself is a self-hosted alternative to ngrok.
Is sish actively maintained?
The most recent commit to sish was on Oct 25, 2026 with 36 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v3.0.5, published Oct 25, 2026. It had 22 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.