# meridian

> Meridian is an open-source CLI that deploys censorship-resistant VLESS+Reality, XHTTP, and Hysteria2 proxy servers on your VPS with automatic hardening.

- **Category:** VPN
- **Licence:** MIT
- **Latest version:** v3.17.3
- **Open source:** oss
- **Languages:** Python, Astro
- **Platforms:** Linux, pip
- **Tags:** Proxy, Nginx, CLI, VPN, Python, Self Hosted, Xray, Reality, Vless, Anti censorship, Censorship circumvention, Hysteria2, Xhttp, Remnawave, Realm

## Description

Meridian is a command-line utility that turns a clean Debian or Ubuntu VPS into a hardened, censorship-resistant proxy server supporting VLESS+Reality, XHTTP, and Hysteria2 protocols. The tool runs on your local workstation (macOS, Linux, or Windows via WSL) and connects over SSH to provision the remote machine automatically: it installs Docker, deploys Xray managed by the Remnawave panel, configures nginx for SNI routing on port 443, obtains Let's Encrypt certificates for the server's IP address, hardens SSH with key-only login and fail2ban, sets up the UFW firewall, and enables BBR congestion control. The deployment verifies actual traffic through the delivered subscription before finishing. Users get a connection page with QR codes and a subscription URL that works with clients such as Happ, FlClashX, Clash Mi, and Throne. Meridian handles multi-server fleets, domestic relay nodes (via Realm TCP forwarder), split routing rules (including Cloudflare WARP), and automatic camouflage target selection. All state lives locally in ~/.config/meridian/cluster.yml. The project uses the MIT license and is currently in beta (v4.0.0b7).

## Links

- [Homepage](https://github.com/getmeridian/meridian)
- [Website](https://getmeridian.org/)
- [Demo](https://getmeridian.org/demo/)
- [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/getmeridian/meridian)
- [Documentation](https://getmeridian.org/en/getting-started/)
- [CLI Reference](https://getmeridian.org/en/cli-reference/)
- [Architecture Documentation](https://getmeridian.org/en/architecture/)
- [Security Documentation](https://getmeridian.org/en/security/)
- [Blog](https://getmeridian.org/blog/)
- [Issues](https://github.com/getmeridian/meridian/issues)

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Source: https://selfhost.directory/project/meridian