Vinyl Cache

HTTP cache in Hosting & cloud

A free, very fast HTTP cache, formerly Varnish, that can keep a site reachable when its backend goes down.

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Vinyl Cache compared with 1 alternative
Product	Recommend	Criticize	Approval	Months	Owned	Badge
Varnish Cache	11	3	79%	7	—	Approved
Vinyl CacheThis page	5	0	100%	4	—	—

All 5 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.

“after you pulled your PHP down, your boring brochure site would still be up.”

RecommendsComment from 21 Oct 2026 in “Dutch National Cyber Security Center is Offline because it uses PHP”

“Vinyl is an insanely fast cache”

RecommendsComment from 12 Sep 2026 in “DeCloudflare”

“running a few instances of Varnish/Vynil and call it a day”

RecommendsComment from 30 Jun 2026 in “US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers”

“it seems to have livened up the open source project”

RecommendsComment from 18 Jun 2026 in “Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache”

“I now wrote the tutorial which we should have had years ago”

RecommendsComment from 11 Apr 2026 in “Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache”

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