On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:35:34PM -0400, Marc Fournier wrote: > > Okay, I'm lost here … what sort of site is Varnish good for … ? A news web > site where nobody every logs into the site … ?
Varnish can be used for that, you just have to tell it to vary the cache based on the login. > For instance, the impression I'm getting is that you couldn't use Varnish in > front of a Facebook like site, since none of the hits would be anonymous? > But would be potentially useful in front of a Slashdot like site, where alot > of the hits *are* anonymous? You can use varnish in front of both (I believe that facebook actually uses varnish to some extent) > The reason I started to look at Varnish was a client asked about it in terms > of the W3T Cache that is available for Wordpress … it apparently has the > ability to 'invalidate cache' in a varnish server, so as to force it to > reload from apache … but I don't know enough about Wordpress to know if I can > even safely disable cookies, but without disabling cookies, nothing will get > cached, making Varnish good as a load balancer, but losing the major benefit Nothing will be cached *in the default configuration*, if Cookie-headers are present in the request or Set-Cookie headers in the response. Your task is to write the configuration that fits your application needs. -- Andreas _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
