SquidWhat is Squid?
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.
Squid is a tool in the Caching category of a tech stack.
Squid Pros & Cons
Pros of Squid
- ✓Easy to config
- ✓Cluster
- ✓Very Fast
- ✓Web application accelerator
- ✓ESI
- ✓Great community
- ✓High-performance
- ✓ICP
- ✓Open Source
- ✓Very Stable
Cons of Squid
No cons listed yet.
Squid Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Squid?
Varnish
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.
Apache Traffic Server
It is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 compliant caching proxy server.Improve your response time, while reducing server load and bandwidth needs by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages, images, and web ser
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