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Todd Sullivan
Personal blog · todsul.comstartupsprogramming
Todd Sullivan writes todsul, a personal blog at todsul.com about startups and programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Nginx vs Varnish: Test Results of 7 Different Configurations”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on web server performance, including microcaching with Nginx for a 250x speedup and load tests of HAProxy, Nginx and HTTP proxy WebSocket support. Commenters debate when these techniques apply.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog of Todd Sullivan - Startups + Tech
Most-linked posts?
- Nginx vs Varnish: Test Results of 7 Different Configurations2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-10-14
What Hacker News says?
The big issue here is the application type. This only works well for a very particular type of application. That is, a highly dynamic site that is NOT dependent on user logins. 1) If the site is only moderately dynamic, you can just use plain Nginx and set fastcgi_cache to a few minutes or hours. Much less load on the server. I like to keep things simple, I wouldn't even bother with Apache. Porting rewrites to Nginx…
Comment linking /nginx-varnish
on “250x Speed Improvements with Microcaching (and No New Code)”Submitted Nginx vs Varnish: Test Results of 7 Different Configurations as a story · 12 points
HN discussionVarnish is slow as hell, see: http://todsul.com/nginx-varnish
Comment linking /nginx-varnish
on “Balancer Battle – Load testing HAproxy, Nginx and HTTP-Proxy's WebSocket support”Submitted Value, Experience, Growth as a story · 1 points
HN discussion