I’ve been running Varnish 3 for a while now on my own server and I have created a general configuration for my setup. I also use this configuration as some sort of template if I have to configure Varnish for a client. Recently I had to setup and configure Varnish 4 for a new project. I was eager to test if my previously created configuration for Varnish 3 would work with the new version. Fortunately there is a way to verify if…
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Edit: This guide was created using Varnish 3, it is possible that some action will not work with Varnish 4. In one of my previous posts I have guided you into configuring Varnish for WordPress websites. One of the main purposes of Varnish is caching and it is great at it. Yet you may come into a situation where you would want to view the actual site, page or file instead of the cached version of it. Developers for example…
Read moreThe server that hosts this website was configured from the ground up by myself. The purpose was to configure a server with a rather limited resource set that was able to serve a few websites without handing in on performance and page speed. One of the ways to maintain a good performance of the server and websites is to ease the web server from its tasks by implementing a caching proxy. In this case I used Varnish Cache to accelerate…
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