🆚 Nginx vs. Squid

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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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 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.

• ⭐ 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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