🆚 Caddy vs. Squid

Caddy is an open-source multi-platform web server written in Go with built-in support for automatic HTTPS and modern web protocols.

It supports automatic TLS management with providers such as Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL, includes a built-in reverse proxy with load balancing, offers configuration through the human-readable Caddyfile or a JSON-based REST API, and features a modular architecture that can be extended with plugins.

Squid is an open-source caching proxy server that is most commonly used as a forward proxy to cache outbound internet requests, reduce bandwidth, and improve access times.

It supports proxy hierarchies and mesh caching using the Internet Cache Protocol, DNS caching, negative caching of failed requests, access control lists for traffic filtering, transparent proxying, and full request logging.

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

• 🥇 Most popular in Romania in the Load Balancers category.
• 🥇 Most popular in Bulgaria in the Load Balancers category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
• 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Load Balancers category.
• 🥉 Third most popular in Austria in the Load Balancers category.

• 🔥 11st most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
• 🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the Caching category.

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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