The Best 8 SquidMan Alternatives

  • Squid

    Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD Self-Hosted FreeBSD NetBSD OpenSolaris Solaris

  • Polipo

    A small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a proxy server). Polipo can be used in place of ad-filtering, privacy-enhancing proxies such as Junkbuster, Privoxy or WWWOFFLE.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • TinyProxy

    Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. It is free software, and supports transparent and reverse proxying.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Lusca

    lusca is a fork of the squid -2 development tree.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • gate.js

    gate - Performance & scalable I/O forward & reverse HTTP proxy based on node.js + V8 a real alternative to Squid & NGINX

    Free Personal Mac OS X Linux BSD

  • CacheGuard-OS

    CacheGuard OS is an Appliance oriented Operating System dedicated to Web traffic Security and Optimization.

    Free Open Source Windows VirtualBox VMware vSphere Hypervisor Microsoft Hyper-V Server Proxmox Virtual Environment