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I just wanted to share with you the link to an incredible HTTP accelerator: http://varnish-cache.org/
We've been testing a lot of different stacks for our startup (Tyba) and using NGINX (behind) + Varnish (upfront) has allowed us to go from 9 reqs/sec (loading a Wordpress site) to 2500 reqs/sec.
I know it's not a novelty but I wanted to share it in the hope it helps the few people who don't know about it.
Kind regards,
Eiso
Also, the guy that wrote it (Poul Henning-Kamp) is very responsive when it comes to answering questions or fixing issues, they have an IRC channel at #varnish on irc.linpro.no.
Definitely a piece of software worth looking in to when your website gets bigger.
Why would Varnish be required in that situation if you're already running nginx which is perfectly capable of caching a simple wordpress site in the same manner.
Why would Varnish be required in that situation if you're already running nginx which is perfectly capable of caching a simple wordpress site in the same manner.
I don't think it's required, but, really, why wouldn't you be running varnish? It's just amazing.
Agreed, nginx+varnish (optionally on top of an existing apache setup) seems to be best practice right now for heavy traffic sites.
Agreed, nginx+varnish (optionally on top of an existing apache setup) seems to be best practice right now for heavy traffic sites.
This might be most popular setup right now, but I wouldn't consider it the best practice. Why in the world would you use both nginx and varnish?