Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, Apache has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
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nginx – hugely popular open source web server
nginx is a lightweight, open-source, very powerful and efficient web server and reverse proxy. Uses a scalable event-driven architecture.
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Angie – web server
Angie is an efficient, powerful, and scalable web server that was forked from nginx. It’s free and open source software.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Web Caches
Web caches have become a vital mechanism for optimizing the amount of data that is delivered in a given period of time. Good web caches also help to minimise latency, serving pages as quickly as possible.
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Memcached – distributed memory object caching system
memcached is a high-performance general-purpose distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature.
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Traffic Server – HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 compliant caching proxy server
Apache Traffic Server is a fast, modular, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server. It speeds internet access.
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Squid – caching proxy for the Web
Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server and web cache daemon. It supports FTP, gopher and HTTP data objects.
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Varnish Cache – caching HTTP reverse proxy
Varnish is a web accelerator written with performance and flexibility in mind. It’s modern architecture gives it a better performance.
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nuster – high-performance HTTP proxy cache server
nuster is an open source high-performance HTTP proxy cache server and RESTful NoSQL cache server based on HAProxy.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Oracle Web Cache
Oracle Web Cache is a secure reverse proxy cache and a compression engine. What are the best free and open source alternatives?
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