Nuster vs Squid vs Varnish
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Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 - 1000x, depending on your architecture. | Squid reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL. | nuster is a high performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy. |
Powerful, feature-rich web cache;HTTP accelerator; Speed up the performance of your website and streaming services | - | Web caching; Load balancing, NoSQL cache server |
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GitHub Stars 887 | GitHub Stars 2.7K | GitHub Stars 1.9K |
GitHub Forks 195 | GitHub Forks 594 | GitHub Forks 154 |
Stacks 12.6K | Stacks 101 | Stacks 6 |
Followers 2.7K | Followers 205 | Followers 29 |
Votes 370 | Votes 17 | Votes 11 |
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