Use Varnish and Nginx to follow, hide and cache 301 / 302 redirects

Hello! Varnish is a robust, open source and stable caching solution that has been employed on many different high traffic environments with a significant amount of success. One of the things that we have come across, specifically with environments such as Amazon Web Services is that websites tend to spread their web stack across multiple […]

https://www.stackstar.com/use-varnish-nginx-follow-hide-cache-301-302-redirects/ Force SSL for your site with Varnish and Nginx

Hello! For those of you who depend on Varnish to offer robust caching and scaling potential to your web stack, hearing about Google’s prioritization (albeit arguably small, for now) of sites that force SSL may cause pause in how to implement. Varnish currently doesn’t have the ability to handle SSL certificates and encrypt requests as […]

https://www.stackstar.com/force-ssl-for-your-site-with-varnish-and-nginx/ Web based system to purge multiple Varnish cache servers

Hello! We have been working with varnish for quite a while. And there is quite a lot of documentation out there already for the different methods for purging cache remotely via Curl, the varnish admin tool sets and other related methods. We deal with varnish in the Amazon Cloud as well as on dedicated servers. […]

https://www.stackstar.com/web-based-system-to-purge-multiple-varnish-cache-servers/ Varnish Caching with Joomla

Hello There! One of the exciting new technologies to come out in the last few years is a tremendously efficient and dynamic caching system called Varnish (see : http://www.varnish-cache.org). We have been employing the use of Varnish for high traffic websites for the purposes of user experience improvements as well as for redundancy and load […]

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