🆚 Google Front End vs. Squid

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.

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.

• ⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
• ⭐ 4th most popular in Taiwan in the Load Balancers category.
• ⭐ 6th most popular in Finland in the Load Balancers category.
• ⭐ 7th most popular in Sweden in the Load Balancers category.
• ⭐ 9th most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.

• ⭐ 10th 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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