Nginx VS Nginx + Varnish

[Phillip B Oldham]

Have you actually tried putting varnish/ncache in place and benchmarking 
the before/after results? As I've found with all server set-ups: YMMV.

Gen Gennix wrote:
> Dave Cheney wrote:
>   
>> From my experience, 60 small static files / second used 2% cpu on a
>> OS X Xeon Server. Are you suspecting that your server is being limited
>> in some way ?
>>     
>
> Right now, I don't have problems.
>
> I just want to optimize my web server for the best result (it takes 
> 400-500ms to serve a 5kB image).
>
>
> http://img29.picoodle.com/img/img29/3/10/10/f_monitoring0m_f2441cf.png
>
> http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/3/10/10/f_monitoring0m_bb25457.png
>
> Those images show my web site performance (from pingdom.com and 
> site-perf.com).
>
> I'm wondering if there is something to reduce those timings...
>
> Thanks.
>
> Attachments:
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/attachment/2797/monitoring00.png
>
>   

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*Phillip B Oldham*
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