Hmm, web servers differ dramatically is serving single files. The approach I favour is to put varnish in front of a classic slow script webserver (tornado, but

Hmm, web servers differ dramatically is serving single files. The approach I favour is to put varnish in front of a classic slow script webserver (tornado, but use node if you prefer). Tornado has this neat way of baking-in versioning to static content so clients (and proxies) can do aggressive caching http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/overview.html#static-files-and-aggressive-file-caching http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/overview.html#static... Best of both worlds.