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Squid vs Varnish

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Marko Žmak

Saturday 19 December 2009 4:28:20 pm

I would like to use a http accelerator with my eZP site. I have narrowed down my choice to two candidates: Squid and Varnish.

Which one is better for eZP and gives greater performance boost?

Anyone has experience with both?

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Gaetano Giunta

Saturday 19 December 2009 5:23:17 pm

Common wisdom is:

- varnish is faster / uses less resources

- it also has support for ESI

- squid otoh can share cache between two live instances, for better scalability (and possibly fault tolerance)

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Ekkehard Dörre

Monday 21 December 2009 8:48:28 am

Hi Marko,

choose the one, you or your administrator knows better, Squid works very nice with eZ Publish, Varnish, too.

For Varnish there are nice extensions:

Varnish Control Center

http://projects.ez.no/all2evcc

eZ Varnish Login

http://projects.ez.no/ezvlogin

Edge_Side_Includes

http://projects.ez.no/ezsi

2 tutorials for Varnish:

http://ez.no/content/download/259672/1817582/file/Varnish2-and-eZ4-implementation-guide.pdf

http://www.all2e.com/Ressourcen/Artikel-und-Fallstudien/Varnish-installation-and-setup-on-ez-publish-based-systems

1 for Squid:

http://share.ez.no/articles/ez-publish/using-the-squid-reverse-proxy-to-improve-ez-publish-performance

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