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It's straightforward to run Pound or HAProxy in front of Varnish to provide SSL-terminatation. I wouldn't consider it a wacky setup. The performance gains over
by eosrei 11y ago
It's straightforward to run Pound or HAProxy in front of Varnish to provide SSL-terminatation. I wouldn't consider it a wacky setup. The performance gains over Nginx for static/anonymous caching is significant.
- falcolas 11y agoIt adds two more layers of software to configure, monitor and maintain, and my own tests disagree on the performance gains for a fairly typical Wordpress install. The response times were virtually identical, and the load on the box was significantly lower with Nginx over varnish, so the simplicity was the deciding factor.