Kong

Kong is the world's most popular open-source API gateway, designed to secure, manage, and extend APIs and microservices at scale. Built on OpenResty (Nginx + LuaJIT), Kong delivers unmatched performance while providing enterprise-grade features for modern cloud-native architectures and hybrid environments.

Common Use Cases

Development teams use Kong to implement centralized API management, authentication, and rate limiting across microservices architectures. Enterprise organizations leverage Kong for API security with OAuth, JWT, and custom authentication plugins while monitoring API performance and usage analytics. DevOps teams deploy Kong as a service mesh gateway for Kubernetes environments, enabling traffic routing, load balancing, and canary deployments. API product teams utilize Kong's developer portal and documentation features to create self-service API marketplaces with automated onboarding and billing integration.

Key Features

• High-performance API gateway with sub-millisecond latency and horizontal scaling
• Comprehensive security suite including OAuth 2.0, JWT, API keys, and RBAC
• Advanced traffic management with rate limiting, request/response transformation, and load balancing
• Rich plugin ecosystem with 50+ officially supported plugins and custom plugin support
• Multiple deployment options: database, DB-less, hybrid, and service mesh modes
• Real-time analytics and monitoring with detailed API metrics and logging
• Developer portal with API documentation, testing tools, and self-service registration
• Multi-protocol support including HTTP/HTTPS, gRPC, WebSockets, and TCP
• Cloud-native design with Kubernetes ingress controller and Helm charts
• Enterprise integrations with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and observability platforms

Why deploy Kong on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Kong on Hostinger VPS provides complete control over your API gateway infrastructure with predictable performance and costs. The VPS environment ensures dedicated resources for high-throughput API traffic, custom plugin development, and compliance requirements that shared API gateway services cannot meet. With full administrative access, you can optimize Kong's configuration for your specific use cases, implement custom authentication flows, and integrate with internal systems while maintaining data sovereignty and meeting regulatory compliance standards.