https://www.nginx.com/blog/maximizing-drupal-8-performance-n...
In the BBC’s testing, they found that with NGINX as a drop-in replacement for Varnish, they saw five times more throughput.
In the BBC’s testing, they found that with NGINX as a drop-in replacement for Varnish, they saw five times more throughput.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10752209
So the conclusion is, as long your malloc fits in your system memory, Varnish should be blazing fast on Linux. If you need a gigantic cache, please try FreeBSD.
I have heard from (other parts of) BBC that Varnish saved a fair amount of bacon for them during the London Olympics, obviously in different workloads.
And nobody would be more surprised than me, if Varnish was a micacle-cure for every single website in the world...