Varnish Alternatives for Windows

Varnish is not available for Windows but there are some alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The best Windows alternative is Squid, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Varnish and eight of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Varnish are CivetWeb, WinGate, freenginx and Apache Ignite.

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  1. 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.

    24 Squid alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  2. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. WinGate icon
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    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.

    13 WinGate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Apache Ignite icon
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    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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    Ignite is a distributed object cache (like Gemfire, Coherence, or Hazelcast). It's not an HTTP proxy or caching proxy.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Apache Ignite is Free and Open SourceVarnish is also Free and Open Source
  6.  1 like

    Lusca is a fork of the Squid -2 development tree. The Lusca project aims to fix the shortcomings in the Squid-2 codebase whilst maintaining the the Squid-2 functionality and stability.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Reproxy icon
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    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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. HtmlSpeed icon
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    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 is achieved by applying unique front-end optimizations.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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