Welcome to the Artica v4 documentation
Official documentation for Artica v4: web proxy, reverse proxy, DNS, firewall, SMTP gateway and more.
Artica, an infrastructure appliance since 2002
Artica turns a Debian server into a network appliance that is safe and simple to run.
Web proxy, reverse proxy, DNS, firewall, intrusion detection, SMTP and TCP routing are all managed from one web console.
Download the ISO file or the virtual appliance
Start here
| You want to | Go to |
|---|---|
| Install Artica | Download the ISO file or the virtual appliance |
| Update an existing server | New versions of Artica v4 |
| Compare the editions | Community and Enterprise licenses |
| Learn the console | Artica Web Console guide |
| Ask a question | Support tracker |
Artica products
Each product has its own documentation section.
Open the one that matches your project.
Internet access and web filtering
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Artica Proxy Edition | HTTP and HTTPS proxy with web filtering and bandwidth savings. |
| Artica Filtering service | Website filtering for the proxy and the DNS services. |
| The Categories Service | Website categories shared with the whole network. |
Web publishing
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Artica Reverse Proxy Edition | Protects and speeds up your web applications. |
| Artica PulseReverse | Reverse-proxy load balancer for your web servers. |
| Artica For Wordpress Edition | Hosts and protects WordPress sites. |
Network services
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Artica DNS Edition | Several ways to build the DNS service of your network, including the DNS Firewall. |
| Artica SMTP Edition | SMTP relay for your organization. |
| Mailbox service | Mailboxes hosted on the appliance. |
| Artica RDS Proxy Edition | Windows remote desktops (RDP) and VNC consoles through one audited bastion. |
| Artica Failover Service | High availability between Artica servers. |
Infrastructure
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Artica File Server Appliance | Windows-compatible file servers, document search and encrypted backups. |
| Artica for Docker Edition | Docker containers managed from the web console. |
| Artica MicroVM Orchestration | Lightweight Firecracker MicroVMs. |
Management and analytics
| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Artica Meta | One console to manage many Artica servers. |
| Artica SIEM | Proxy, iptables and FortiGate analytics, with dashboards and months of history. |
| Artica AI | The assistant built into the Artica web console. |
| Artica Web Console | Technical guide to the web console. |
The dashboard of the Artica v4 web console.
Why open source
Artica has been open source since the first line of code.
Anyone can read that code, so our developers have no place to hide sloppy work.
The Community Edition runs on more than 180,000 servers.
With that many installations, bugs surface fast and get fixed fast.
You can run the Community Edition in production for as long as you like.
That is exactly why the base has to be solid.
It is what convinces administrators to move their servers to the Enterprise Edition.
Support and feedback
We do not leave users stranded.
The Enterprise license gets you a quick answer to a technical question.
Community users are welcome to ask too, and to tell us what they think of the product.
If you dislike something, we want to hear it.
| Channel | Use it for |
|---|---|
| support.articatech.com | Questions, bug reports and feature requests. |
| GitHub | The source code and its issue tracker. |
| support@articatech.com | Anything else, by email. |
About Artica Tech
Artica Tech is an independent French software publisher, based near Paris.
The company was founded in 2012, after ten years of Artica as an open source project.
It manages the Artica software and its research and development.
The project started in 2002.
At the time, open source security tools were hard to deploy and expensive to maintain.
Artica set out to put them behind a web interface that anyone could use.
Today Artica runs on about 180,000 servers worldwide.
Small businesses use it, and so do large companies.
Artica sits between expensive commercial products and bare free tools.
The current generation is Artica v4.
It started in 2019 on Debian 9.
Current releases run on Debian 12 and Debian 13.
Company website: articatech.net