Download article as PDF Varnish is an excellent Web accelerator that can be made to proxy requests in and out of a cluster of somewhat more fully fledged Web servers like Apache or Litespeed. It has some great features like its compiled language, called VCL, and C-like programming API. Large vBulletin deployments tend to be [...]
Download article as PDF My interest in NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) has picked up quite a bit as of late. This technology has a huge potential for application in large scale Web hosting and Internet solutions. In brief, NUMA is a technology that was conceived to get around bus contention in general. What this means [...]
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Download article as PDF We have had great success with Mediawiki running behind Varnish, a proxy / web accelerator. The role of Varnish is to cache as many requests as possible. This helps alleviate resource consumption on the server such as CPU, memory, and disk, which in turn greatly improves performance and browser responsiveness. With [...]
