Ricardo Newbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Varnish is good as a proxy in front of *slow* backends generating > dynamic content, but I suspect it's probably of marginal benefit as > a proxy to serve static content and possibly even when serving > *fast* dynamic content.
You're wrong. Varnish improves performance even for static content and fast dynamic content. Varnish serves requests from memory, and doesn't spend valuable time writing logs. > I'm curious about the claim about Apache performance in comparison > to Varnish. Is Varnish serving from cache really that much faster > than Apache serving static files? Yes, as long as your client isn't apachebench. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav Senior Software Developer Linpro AS - www.linpro.no _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
