🆚 Nginx vs. Squid
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Nginx is much more popular than Squid.
- 🌍 Nginx is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Squid is particularly popular in Japan.
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About
Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy.
It supports serving static files, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, proxying and load balancing for HTTP, TCP and UDP traffic, and caching of FastCGI/uwsgi/memcached responses.
Squid is a caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.
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Awards
- 🥇 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Caching category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
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