The Best 16 Varnish Alternatives

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    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

  • memcached icon

    memcached

    Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • TinyProxy icon

    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

  • section.io icon

    section.io

    Caching and Security SaaS CDN. We use tools such as Varnish Cache and modSecurity along with other opensource software (Graphite, Kibana, ELK etc.) to give developers an...

    Freemium Web

  • cachelot icon

    cachelot

    Cachelot works within a fixed amount of memory. No garbage collector. Small metadata, near perfect memory utilization (overhead is 5-7% of the total memory). Smooth...

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • WinGate icon

    WinGate

    WinGate Proxy Server is a highly capable integrated Proxy server, firewall and email server designed for access control, security and communications needs. What you do...

    Freemium Windows

    Access Control Web log analysis
  • Artica Proxy icon

    Artica Proxy

    Artica Proxy is an appliance that claim to manage Squid-cache proxy with all features that Squid Cache provides. With the Artica Web interface you can monitor, manage...

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Lusca icon

    Lusca

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

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • gate.js icon

    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

  • Apache Ignite icon

    Apache Ignite

    high-performance, integrated and distributed in-memory platform for computing and transacting on large-scale data sets in real-time.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • ExaProxy icon

    ExaProxy

    ExaProxy is a a high-performance non-caching proxy. It is able to filter HTTP traffic using third party scripts in your favorite programming language.

    Free Mac OS X Linux BSD

  • HtmlSpeed icon

    HtmlSpeed

    Html-Speed is a reverse proxy written in Java. It is used for accelerating performance of websites by improving page load speed and reducing load on webservers. This...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • NightShift icon

    NightShift

    Pre-load Netflix in advance so you can watch your favorite shows without interruption and always in full HD.

    Commercial Web