Projects

NGINX

NGINX [Engine-X] is an HTTP(S) server, HTTP(S) reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. It has been running on many heavily loaded sites, including Facebook, Zappos, Groupon, LivingSocial, Hulu, TechCrunch, Dropbox, Tumblr and WordPress.

Squid Cache

Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, and HTTP data objects. Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process.

APC

APC is a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code.

Varnish

Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator. Varnish is targeted primarily at the FreeBSD 6 and Linux 2.6 platforms, and will take full advantage of the virtual memory system and advanced I/O features offered by these operating systems.

XCache

XCache is a open-source opcode cacher, which means that it accelerates the performance of PHP on servers. It optimizes performance by removing the compilation time of PHP scripts by caching the compiled state of PHP scripts into the shm (RAM) and uses the compiled version straight from the RAM. This ... [More] will increase the rate of page generation time by up to 5 times as it also optimizes many other aspects of php scripts and reduce serverload. [Less]

eAccelerator

eAccelerator is a further development of the mmcache PHP accelerator and encoder. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in a compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated.

Psyco

Psyco is a Python extension module which can massively speed up the execution of any Python code.

Pound

Pound is a lightweight open source reverse proxy program suitable to be used as a web server load balancing solution.

Apache Traffic Server

claimed by Apache Software Foundation

Traffic Server is fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server.

Polipo

Polipo is a small and fast caching web proxy (a web cache, an HTTP proxy, a proxy server).