🆚 Apache Traffic Server vs. Nginx

Apache Traffic Server is an open-source high-performance HTTP caching proxy server that serves cached content at the network edge to reduce origin load and improve response times.

It provides an event-driven core with asynchronous native DNS for high concurrency, and supports custom plugins written in C/C++ or Lua for modifying headers, inspecting caches, handling Edge Side Includes, and implementing custom caching algorithms.

Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy designed for handling large volumes of concurrent connections with low memory usage.

It supports serving static files, reverse proxying, load balancing for HTTP, TCP, and UDP traffic, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, WebSocket proxying, response compression, and zero-downtime configuration reloads.

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Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in the Czech Republic in the Load Balancers category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in the Czech Republic in the Caching category.

• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
• 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Caching category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Caching category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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