🆚 Apache Traffic Server vs. Google Front End

Type

Caching
Load balancer

About

Apache Traffic Server is a fast, scalable, and extensible web proxy cache that improves performance by caching frequently accessed information at the edge of the network.

Google Front End (GFE) is Google's globally distributed reverse proxy that accepts client connections at the network edge and routes requests to Google services.

It provides TLS termination, request routing, load balancing, and protection against denial-of-service attacks, and is available only as the underlying infrastructure for Google Cloud Load Balancing and other Google services.

Headquarters

Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Not available separately

Categories

Caching › Rank #20
Load Balancers › Rank #13
Load Balancers › Rank #10

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Google Front End load balancer is 2.7 times more popular than Apache Traffic Server.
Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google Front End is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Sweden, while Apache Traffic Server is more popular in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and China.
Czech Republic
United States
Japan
Sweden
France
United Kingdom
Germany
India
Taiwan
Brazil

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google Front End is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Apache Traffic Server is more commonly used on portal sites sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
General News
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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See also

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