On Mar 10, 2008, at 2:25 PM, g.sharpe wrote:
I'm currently running a site with Varnish, but I'm unable to enable CacheFu due to an error related to the Webcouturier drop down menu product that I've been unsuccessful in completely uninstalling. Is there any harm in running Varnish without CacheFu available to purge the cache for the time being?
You're not required to use CacheFu to use Varnish (or Squid). CacheFu just helps.
The default Plone installation generates some of the same headers so many of the default page elements will still be cached okay. Content space images will likely generate more conditional requests than it would with CacheFu. Other content and container views (and non- content template views) will probably not be cached at all (unless a Varnish default is set) and won't generate conditional requests. In the CacheFu default cache policy, content/container and template views are cached in memory and conditional requests are enabled so you'll lose a little speed there.
But overall, the CacheFu default cache policy is pretty conservative so the speed difference in a stock Plone site, compared to a non- CacheFu proxy-cache setup, probably won't be huge. CacheFu helps more when you start customizing.
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