We’ve had very positive results accelerating XenForo with Varnish (in a cluster configuration). In terms of VCL, we’re taking a slightly different approach. We’re allocating a small per-user cache (logged in), which makes XenForo pages load even faster than normal conditions.
A PHP built-in Web server has been proposed as a Request For Comment (RFC), which includes a patch to the PHP source code base.
Everyone knows that PHP opcode caching, or any kind of PHP caching for that matter, is not possible with suPHP. The workaround we’ve devised doesn’t require any compromise in terms of security.
It tends to be difficult to prove uselessness in the unixy world because people can get quite creative with commands in shell scripts. Tools that may appear to be useless to some could be indispensable to others. And as the saying goes: one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. So here’s to hoping this short list is no one’s favorite.
UNIXY is pleased to announce the beta release of the Varnish cPanel script. Read it all here: http://www.unixy.net/varnish
If you haven’t had a chance to check on the new features in the next release of Apache’s HTTPD then here is a digest. The most notable changes have been made to the core and those are KeepAliveTimeout and Loadable MPMs
