rc7 is out! We’ve upgraded to Varnish 3.0.2, fixed some bugs, and made some improvements to make your server run even faster!. Head out to the varnish download page: http://www.unixy.net/varnish

In this post, I’m going to list the steps required to pair the cPanel Varnish Plugin with Litespeed on cPanel WHM servers. These few procedures apply to a blank cPanel installation (no Litespeed, no Varnish Plugin). The order below is important so don’t skip!

Apache vs Litespeed: Apache 95% faster than Litespeed

This error is not specific to Litespeed but can be encountered while building PHP with MySQL support on 64-bit systems. The fix is to tell the build that the MySQL client is indeed installed, but in a different directory, by adding the following flag to the configure line in Litespeed: –with-libdir=lib64 The reason being the [...]

Update (2011-02-16): If you’re interested in running Varnish with cPanel, UNIXY has created a cPanel Varnish plugin. Our Varnish VCL configuration performs much better than Litespeed. Read more about it here: http://www.unixy.net/varnish Update (2010-10-09): Should you be interested in a managed vBulletin dedicated server know that UNIXy has built a system that is ideal for [...]

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