Monthly Archives: September 2008
Multiple backends with Varnish
So as of now, you can safely use one varnish instance for several front-ends, thus eliminate double-caching (memory waste, unnecessary load on back-ends), reduce network traffic, do rudimentary load balancing, ease management etc.
With the obscene amount of traffic Varnish can push without putting a fairly basic system under any load worth mentioning, you can use a single front-end to serve several nodes in most setups. Continue reading
btrfs – filesystem to end all filesystems?
There are some good stuff on the horizon! It’s called btrfs (“butter-fs”). It was originally announced/”released” over a year ago by our friends at Oracle and has, in my opinion, not quite received the attention it deserves. I’m keeping a … Continue reading