The user-friendly UI and strong security features of SafeLine WAF are really outstanding! Setting up Docker with only one command makes deployment a breeze. It uses semantic analysis to detect threats intelligently, which stops attacks like SQL injection and XSS with high accuracy and few false positives. The free edition already has great features that are great for individuals and small enterprises. Also, the Discord community is quite helpful, which makes it a great pick. I highly suggest it!

We’ve been using SafeLine for a few months now on several production applications. What we really like is the self-hosted nature — it gives us full control over traffic filtering and logging without sending data to a third-party service. Deployment was pretty straightforward (we’re using it with Docker), and the documentation was good enough to get us up and running quickly. In terms of protection, it handles common web attacks well, especially SQL injection and XSS. The custom rule feature is very useful — we’ve added a few business-specific filters without much hassle. Performance-wise, it hasn’t introduced noticeable latency. The development team is frequently maintaining the project. Their support is also very fast and incredibly awesome. Overall, it’s a great fit if you want a reliable, customizable WAF you can fully control. Would recommend it to teams that have some technical background and want an alternative to cloud-based WAFs.