Nginx VS Nginx + Varnish

[Jeffrey 'jf' Lim]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Victor Iggy <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> I have tried both approaches. nginx on ZFS (arc caching) is superior in
> performance to varnish in front of nginx. I can easily choke varnish
> with many requests.
>
> http://letsgetdugg.com/view/Nginx_hidden_performance_option
>
> works very well for us in our production environment.
>
> -Victor
>
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On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Victor Iggy <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> oh yes I forgot, I have confronted one of the developers on #varnish
> with my results. The said developer stated that nginx currently does
> have the edge performance wise, even though they have the "superior"
> architecture.
>

and would this be on solaris only? or does it apply to other platforms as well?

-jf

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