Squid VS HAProxy

Compare Squid vs HAProxy and see what are their differences.

Squid

Squid Web Proxy Cache (by squid-cache)

HAProxy

HAProxy documentation (by langpavel)
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Squid HAProxy
29 0
1,920 8
3.3% -
9.5 0.0
1 day ago about 12 years ago
C++ JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 only -
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Squid

Posts with mentions or reviews of Squid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-03.

HAProxy

Posts with mentions or reviews of HAProxy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning HAProxy yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Squid and HAProxy you can also consider the following projects:

socks5-proxy-server - SOCKS5 proxy server

Tinyproxy - tinyproxy - a light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems

envoy - Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy

Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy

Nginx Proxy Manager - Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

Nginx - An official read-only mirror of http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/ which is updated hourly. Pull requests on GitHub cannot be accepted and will be automatically closed. The proper way to submit changes to nginx is via the nginx development mailing list, see http://nginx.org/en/docs/contributing_changes.html

Apache - Mirror of Apache HTTP Server. Issues: http://issues.apache.org

Swiperproxy - A Python-based HTTP/HTTPS-proxy.