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I believe NGINX's caching is as efficient, if not moreso, but it is less flexible. The tools available to you in Varnish's VCL are substantial, plus you get ESI
by cknight 10y ago
I believe NGINX's caching is as efficient, if not moreso, but it is less flexible. The tools available to you in Varnish's VCL are substantial, plus you get ESI support - something NGINX lacks.
- detaro 10y agoAlso selective cache purging is a paid feature with nginx.
- tyingq 10y agoIf you're using the filesystem backed cache with nginx, selective cache purge, stats, etc, is a fairly trivial scripting task.
- unsignedinteger 10y agoAgreed, There is also an OS alternative which essentially mirrors the functionality of propriety nginx cache purge: https://github.com/FRiCKLE/ngx_cache_purge https://github.com/FRiCKLE/ngx_cache_purge Hence you can just build it with your standing nginx binary reducing the need for miscellaneous scripts.
- detaro 10y agothanks for the info/link!