How a little varnish changed my life

1 · Ariejan de Vroom · March 24, 2010, midnight
Okay, it’s a bit of an exaggeration to say varnish changed my life, but it sure did change the speed of my site! I got from a rotten 6 requests per second with WordPress to a whopping 9500! If you’re on Linux and running Apache, installing varnish is a breeze! Especially if you’re hosting a well cacheable site like a blog. ~ I’m running on a Linux Debian virtual server (provided by Kabisa) with 1 VCPU core and 512MB of memory....