Compare Apache Traffic Server to these popular alternatives based on real-world usage and developer feedback.

Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 - 1000x, depending on your architecture.

Squid 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. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

Edge Compute Platform gives Dev and Ops engineers the access and control they need to run compute workloads on a distributed edge.

nuster is a high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy.