China-Built SafeLine WAF Gains Global Popularity Among Startups & Homelabs

Chaitin Tech announces SafeLine, a self-hosted WAF featuring a semantic analysis engine for context-aware threat detection, aiming to reduce false positives/negatives without user registration. The free edition includes identity auth, REST API, bot protection, rate limiting, and custom rules (up to 10 apps), with Lite and Pro tiers adding geoblocking, alerts, curated threat intelligence, HA, load balancing, analytics, and unlimited domains. The project updates every 2–3 weeks, reports ~400,000 global installs, and targets homelabs and businesses seeking privacy-respecting, easy-to-deploy web protection.