🆚 Nginx vs. Varnish
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Nginx is much more popular than Varnish.
- 🌍 Nginx is more popular in all countries.
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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.
Varnish Cache is an open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.
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- 🥇 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 Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.
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