--- layout: home hero: name: OpenFlare text: Open-source CDN Orchestration & Edge Security Platform tagline: Supports reverse proxy, centralized configuration synchronization, Pages static hosting, secure intranet penetration (Tunnels), dynamic WAF protection, and anti-CC challenges. actions: - theme: brand text: Quick Start link: /en/guide/quick-start - theme: alt text: Design Boundaries link: /en/design/ - theme: alt text: GitHub link: https://github.com/Rain-kl/OpenFlare features: - icon: 🛰️ title: Centralized Config Sync details: Sync configurations across all nodes in real time via WebSockets and heartbeats with sub-second hot reload. Instantly retrieve alerts and statuses. - icon: 🌐 title: Distributed CDN Orchestration details: Orchestrate scattered and independent OpenResty nodes into a highly collaborative CDN fleet with multi-upstream load balancing. - icon: 📄 title: Pages Static Hosting details: Upload pre-built frontend zip assets directly; edge nodes pull, extract, and serve them locally at high performance with API proxying. - icon: 🚇 title: Secure Intranet Penetration (Tunnels) details: An open-source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels. Expose local intranet services securely to the public network without a public IP or open inbound ports. - icon: 🛡️ title: Edge WAF Protection details: Dynamic WAF rules with differential syncing of IP groups to Lua shared memory without Nginx reloads, plus country-level regional access control. - icon: 🧩 title: Anti-CC & Bot Defense (PoW) details: Built-in high-performance client-side cryptographic Proof of Work challenges (similar to Turnstile) to intercept botnets and scrapers at the edge. ---