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A '''web accelerator''' is a proxy server that reduces web site access time. They can be a self-contained hardware appliance or uninstallinstallable software.

Web accelerators notmay allowedbe installed on the client computer or mobile device, on ISP servers, on the server computer/network, or a combination. Accelerating delivery through compression requires some type of host-based unserverserver to collect, decompresscompress and then deliver content to a [[Computerclient security|computer]].

==Techniques==

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==Web server accelerator==

Other web accelerators are targeted at the web site or web application owners. This type of web accelerator is installed in front of web servers and application servers and use a variety of the above techniques to improve performance to all users accessing the accelerated web sites or web applications. Web server accelerators are sometimes referred to as [[Websitereverse proxy|websitereverse proxies]] or [[Application Delivery UnknownController]]s.

This type of server side accelerator has the added benefit of off-loading transactions and connection managements from the web or applications servers and hence, reducing its CPU utilization and increasing web server or application scalability to handle more users with less bandwidth.

===List===

* [[aiScaler]]

* Apache [[UnknownTraffic Server]]

* [[ApplianSys#deleteboxCACHEbox|CACHEbox]]

* [[nginx]]

* [[Polipo]]

* [[Squid (software)|Squid]]

* [[VannishVarnish (software)|VannishVarnish]]

* [[proxyZiproxy]]

==Client–server==