High traffic on Nginx-Webservers !!

[shahzaib shahzaib]

Thanks for quick response, well our website is related to video streaming
just like youtube. Could you provide me some guide to learn varnish for
start-up ?

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Shahzaib


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de>wrote:

> Am Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:39:53 +0500
> schrieb shahzaib shahzaib <shahzaib.cb at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> >        We're using the cluster of 5 webservers using nginx (reverse
> > proxy)
> > + apache to handle php requests. Our web-servers are constantly high
> > with load-avg of 2.0~3.0. I have seen people using varnish between
> > nginx + apache. Could someone guide me if installing Nginx > Varnish
> > > apache will reduce the server load ?
> >
> > It's urgent.
>
>
> If the content is cachable, it will reduce load.
>
> But deploying varnish requires some experience and knowledge of the
> application.
> Unless the application is e.g. plain-vanilla wordpress, there are no
> out-of-the-box varnish tutorials to help you in your specific situation.
>
> If your content is cachable and you don't require varnish's
> cache-invalidation features, you could use nginx's proxy-caching
> features.
>
> See the wiki/handbook.
>
>
>
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