Varnish Alternatives

Apps similar to Varnish include nginx, which is free and open source. Other options are Squid, BunkerWeb, freenginx and CivetWeb. You can choose from more than 10 Proxy Services like Varnish for Linux, Mac, Windows, self-hosting and the web.

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  1. nginx icon
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    nginx ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server.

    62 nginx alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
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  2. Squid icon
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    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. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.

    25 Squid alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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  3. freenginx icon
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    freenginx is an effort to preserve free and open development of nginx, an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server, originally written by Igor Sysoev.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. CivetWeb icon
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    CivetWeb is an easy to use, powerful, C/C++ embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. TinyProxy icon
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    Tinyproxy is a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems. It is free software, and supports transparent and reverse proxying.

    29 TinyProxy alternatives

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    • Linux
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  6. WinGate icon
     3 likes

    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 get is all the features of Standard license for 3 concurrent users.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  7. Artica Proxy icon
     3 likes

    ARTICA Proxy is an enterprise grade security appliance : web filtering (w/o SSL decryption), DNS Filtering, bandwith optimisation, easy ACL management, users authentication on LDAP or Active Directory (NTLM/Kerberos), deployment tools (such as proxy.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  8. memcached icon
     12 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  9. Reproxy icon
     2 likes

    Reproxy is a simple edge HTTP(s) server / reverse proxy supporting various providers (docker, static, file). One or more providers supply information about the requested server, requested url, destination URL, and health check url.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  10. Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation, and it is now an Apache TLP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
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  11. Apache Ignite icon
     3 likes

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Java
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