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03-13-2012, 10:18 PM #1New Member
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Squid vs Nginx
I wanted to know the caching features Nginx support. Does Nginx has the same rich features of squid.
I am trying to select a reverse proxy server for my project.
So I decided to use either of the two.
Any suggestions.
Thanks.
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03-13-2012, 11:28 PM #2Temporarily Suspended
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nginx is used for web server and squid is used for proxy server . you cant compare both of them .
you can use nginx with apache as a reverse proxy . you can cache static/dynamic contents using Nginx as reverse proxy cache .Last edited by host4offshore; 03-13-2012 at 11:36 PM.
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03-13-2012, 11:59 PM #3New Member
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Squid vs Nginx
Thanks for the reply.
As read through the Squid documentation, we can configure Squid as a reverse proxy cache.
My actual requirement is a Reverse proxy server with caching facility.
Actually I am thinking of building my own CDN and thought of using either of the two, but could not decide which one to use.
Thanks.
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03-14-2012, 01:35 AM #4WebHostingTalk Lover
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It's not a good way to compare the two, but either way both are very solid and used by many. You'd have to play a lot around with tweaking the settings however.
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03-14-2012, 01:38 AM #5Aspiring Evangelist
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cant they both be used as a reverse proxy? or is that nginx and varnish?
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03-14-2012, 01:56 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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Squid has more features and scales better, but Nginx is faster in simple cases. If you're just running a single site without any complex requirements, you'll probably be better off with Nginx. However, for multiple sites, things like the lack of pipelining in Nginx will hurt you, so Squid would be the better choice in that case. You may also want to consider Varnish for a reverse proxy cacher, but you won't be able to do HTTPS.
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03-14-2012, 02:14 AM #7New Member
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What exactly specific features of squid do you need? As reverse proxy nginx is probably the best solution nowadays.
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03-14-2012, 08:57 PM #9New Member
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Squid vs Nginx
Apart from the reverse proxy ability, I am looking for a good caching support and wanted to have inter proxy communication in a farm of cluster of server at one location.
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