Vinyl Cache

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.