Squid vs Varnish

Sunday 20 December 2009 1:28:20 am - 2 replies

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?

2 replies

Sunday 20 December 2009 2:23:17 am

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)

Monday 21 December 2009 5:48:28 pm

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

Edge_Side_Includes

2 tutorials for Varnish:

1 for Squid:

greetings, ekke

You must be logged in to post messages in this topic!