Thursday, January 27, 2011

Nginx web server with a Varnish cache

Nginx is a new breed of web server that scales to massive numbers of connections without running into memory problems. It does this by taking advantage of operating system services for tasks and by keeping things simple (lack of fancy services). Stand aside Apache!

Varnish provides caching with simple configuration, with the ability to get specific about what to cache. And, curiously, you can place it in front of and/or behind the worker server. (Does not handle HTTPS.)

Love simple technology solutions.

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