WinGate AlternativesProxy Services and other similar apps like WinGate

WinGate is described as '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' and is a Proxy Service in the network & admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to WinGate for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best WinGate alternative is Squid, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like WinGate are Polipo, TinyProxy, 3proxy and Varnish.

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  1. Squid icon

    Squid

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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

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
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    Comments about Squid as an Alternative to WinGate
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    Squid is not a SOCKS proxy server

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Squid is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to WinGate.

    • Squid is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to WinGate.

    • Squid is Free and Open SourceWinGate is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Squid is Privacy focusedWinGate is not according to our users
  2. Polipo icon

    Polipo

     25 likes

    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. As Polipo has much more refined HTTP support, it doesnt impose the speed tax usually...

    19 Polipo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. TinyProxy icon

    TinyProxy

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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.

    28 TinyProxy alternatives

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    • Linux
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  5. 3proxy icon

    3proxy

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    3Proxy tiny free proxy server is really tiny cross-platform (Win32/Win64&Unix) freeware proxy servers set. It includes HTTP proxy with HTTPS and FTP support, SOCKSv4/SOCKSv4.5/SOCKSv5 proxy (socks/socks.exe), POP3 proxy, SMTP proxy, AIM/ICQ proxy (icqpr/icqpr.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  6. Varnish icon

    Varnish

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    Varnish Cache is an open source, state of the art HTTP application accelerator.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    WinGate is a ProxyServer, Varnish is a pass-through cache

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Varnish is Free and Open SourceWinGate is Freemium and Proprietary
  7. CCProxy icon

    CCProxy

     8 likes

    Want to share Internet connection? Get every computer online through a single Internet connection? Maximize the efficiency of your Internet access on a limited budget? Look no further! Get CCProxy, a small Internet sharing software!

    7 CCProxy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Artica Proxy icon

    Artica Proxy

     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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Artica Proxy v4 : Dashboard
     
  10. CacheGuard Gateway icon

    CacheGuard Gateway

     6 likes

    CacheGuard Gateway is a free and open-source Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution, a Web Application Firewall (WAF), and a Quality of Service (QoS) platform designed to optimize WAN traffic. To obtain a CacheGuard Gateway appliance, download CacheGuard-OS and install it on...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • VirtualBox
    • Self-Hosted
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
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    Apache Traffic Server

     3 likes

    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
     

  12. Lusca

     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.

    12 Lusca alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     

  13. ExaProxy

     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  14. Forefront Threat Management Gateway icon

    Forefront Threat Management Gateway

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    Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (Forefront TMG), formerly known as Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA Server), is a network security and protection solution for Microsoft Windows, described by Microsoft as "enables businesses by allowing...

    10 Forefront Threat Management Gateway alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • Forefront Threat Management Gateway is the most popular commercial alternative to WinGate.

    • Forefront Threat Management Gateway is Paid and ProprietaryWinGate is Freemium and Proprietary
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