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.

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.

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).

ffproxy

ffproxy is a filtering HTTP/HTTPS proxy server. It is able to filter by host, URL, and header. Custom header entries can be filtered and added. It can even drop its privileges and chroot() to some directory. Logging to syslog() is supported, as is using another auxiliary proxy server. HTTP ... [More] accelerator feature (acting as front-end to a HTTP server) is included. Contacting IPv6 servers as well as binding to IPv6 is supported and allows transparent IPv6 over IPv4 browsing (and vice versa). [Less]