Infrastructure & DevOps

fail2zig

Last updated 2026-09-16 · benchmark measured 2026-09-16 — deterministic & reproducible

fail2zig is a fail2ban replacement for Linux distributed as a single static binary.

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Legit.Show scored fail2zig 96/100 on 2026-09-16, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/fail2zig-com/2026-09-16

Is fail2zig production-ready?

Legit.Show scores fail2zig 96 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on fail2zig (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Standards. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 97/100
• Accessibility — 96/100
• Security — 100/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 100/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 86/100
• Discoverability — 90/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 92 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: structured data, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who it's for

Linux system administrators · security teams · DevOps engineers · server operators

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from fail2zig.com's own website on 2026-09-16.

Operator

ul0gic, as named in fail2zig.com's terms, privacy page or footer.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-16.

Put together from public information, without fail2zig's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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