# Vinyl Cache

Caching HTTP reverse proxy, installed in front of any HTTP server to cache its responses, configured with the Vinyl Configuration Language (VCL).


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/vinyl-cache/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-19
Listed since: 2026-10-19

## Record

### Links

- home: https://vinyl-cache.org
- repository: https://code.vinyl-cache.org/vinyl-cache/vinyl-cache
- docs: https://vinyl-cache.org/docs/9.1/
- mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@vinyl_cache

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: The Vinyl Cache Project
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: unknown
- hqCountry: DK

### Kind

- category: web-server
- hosting: binary
- language: c
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: source tarball, FreeBSD package, OpenBSD package

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: BSD-2-Clause

### Releases

- currentMajor: 9
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-09-16

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: unknown
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: unknown
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://vinyl-cache.org/ (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://vinyl-cache.org/ (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://code.vinyl-cache.org/api/v1/repos/vinyl-cache/vinyl-cache (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://vinyl-cache.org/docs/9.1/ (read 2026-10-19)
- category: https://vinyl-cache.org/ (read 2026-10-19)
- language: https://code.vinyl-cache.org/api/v1/repos/vinyl-cache/vinyl-cache (read 2026-10-19)
- runtime: https://vinyl-cache.org/docs/9.1/installation/install_source.html (read 2026-10-19)
- maintainer: https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/bylaws/bylaws_1.00.html (read 2026-10-19)
- maintainerType: https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/bylaws/bylaws_1.00.html (read 2026-10-19)
- hqCountry: https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/bylaws/bylaws_1.00.html (read 2026-10-19)
- license: https://code.vinyl-cache.org/vinyl-cache/vinyl-cache/raw/branch/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-19)
- licenseModel: https://code.vinyl-cache.org/vinyl-cache/vinyl-cache/raw/branch/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-19)
- installMethod: https://vinyl-cache.org/docs/9.1/installation/install.html (read 2026-10-19)
- currentMajor: https://code.vinyl-cache.org/api/v1/repos/vinyl-cache/vinyl-cache/releases (read 2026-10-19)
- latestReleaseDate: https://code.vinyl-cache.org/api/v1/repos/vinyl-cache/vinyl-cache/releases (read 2026-10-19)
- runsAs: https://vinyl-cache.org/docs/9.1/tutorial/putting_vinyl_on_port_80.html (read 2026-10-19)

## Notes

Vinyl Cache sits in front of an existing HTTP server and caches that server's responses. It is configured in VCL, the Vinyl Configuration Language. It builds to a native binary and runs as a long-running process, so the host has to keep a process running beside the web server.

The project published its releases as Varnish Cache until it renamed itself. The Vinyl Cache Project, a voluntary association under Danish law, maintains it.

## Worth knowing

Varnish Software publishes its own distribution under the Varnish Cache name. That is a separate product and not covered by this record.

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