[TYPO3-performance] Scaling TYPO3 horizontally

Steffen Gebert steffen.gebert at typo3.org
Wed Jul 10 17:25:12 CEST 2013


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Hi Ernesto,

Varnish does in-memory caching and also gives you way to (very
efficiently) purge cache entries.

I'm not sure, how flexible one can be with nginx whether this and that
is cached or not, but VCL allows you to do this.


Kind regards
Steffen

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On 7/9/13 11:34 PM, Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
> Steffen Gebert schrieb am 29.06.2013 10:38:
>> nginx for SSL termination in front of varnish works also very well.
>>
>> typo3.org uses nginx also as proxy for http in front of varnish. I'm not
>> fully convinced of this, but the good thing is that people causing
>> excessive load can easily be blocked (and new nginx version also offer
>> rate limitations).
> 
> But then I wonder:
> 
> Why use varnish at all? nginx is a load balancer, reverse proxy *and*
> SSL endpoint all in one. And it's pretty fast already. What benefit is
> added by having an additional component in the already complex stack
> (Varnish)? Just to get 1% or 2% of "even more" performance?
> 
> I've read similar concerns on several blog posts.
> 
> Since we seem to have a very "pro-varnish" fraction amongst the TYPO3
> developers, I would like to hear an opinion on that.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Ernesto
> 
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