Description
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. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.
Squid is used by hundreds of Internet Providers world-wide to provide their users with the best possible web access. Squid optimises the data flow between client and server to improve performance and caches frequently-used content to save bandwidth. Squid can also route content requests to servers in a wide variety of ways to build cache server hierarchies which optimise network throughput.
Thousands of web-sites around the Internet use Squid to drastically increase their content delivery. Squid can reduce your server load and improve delivery speeds to clients. Squid can also be used to deliver content from around the world - copying only the content being used, rather than inefficiently copying everything. Finally, Squid's advanced content routing configuration allows you to build content clusters to route and load balance requests via a variety of web servers.
Squid alternatives and similar software solutions
Based on the "Proxy" category
-
Traefik
Træfɪk is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends -
Redbird
A modern reverse proxy for node that includes cluster, HTTP2, LetsEncrypt, and Docker support. -
imgproxy
Fast and secure standalone server for resizing and converting remote images. It works great when you need to resize multiple images on the fly without preparing a ton of cached resized images or re-doing it every time the design changes. -
miniProxy
Simple web proxy written in PHP that can allow you to bypass Internet content filters, or to browse the internet anonymously. Only one php file. -
Pomerium
An identity-aware reverse proxy, successor to now obsolete oauth_proxy. It inserts an OAuth step before proxying your request to the backend, so that you can safely expose your self-hosted websites to public Internet. -
PHP-Proxy
A web proxy script built specifically to be fast, easy to modify and to support video sites such as YouTube. -
http2-serverpush-proxy
A reverse proxy that helps to automatically utilize HTTP/2.0's server push mechanism for static websites. Available as middleware and standalone application. -
socks5-proxy-server
SOCKS5 proxy server with built-in authentication and Telegram-bot for user management and user statistics on data spent -
Privoxy
A non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.
* Code Quality Rankings and insights are calculated and provided by Lumnify.
They vary from L1 to L5 with "L5" being the highest. Visit our partner's website for more details.
Do you think we are missing an alternative of Squid or a related project?
Popular Comparisons
|
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
View more from us
|