Loading tsa/howto/cache.mdwn +6 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -121,11 +121,13 @@ TBD. ### Apache Traffic Server Pros: * HTTPS * HTTP/2 * industry leader (behind cloudflare) Cons: * load balancing is an experimental plugin (at least in 2016) * no static file serving? or slower? * no commercial support Loading @@ -136,6 +138,7 @@ Used by Yahoo, Apple and Comcast. ### Nginx Pros: * provides full webserver stack means much more flexibility, possibility of converging over a single solution across the infrastructure Loading @@ -146,6 +149,7 @@ Pros: * HTTPS Cons: * provides full webserver stack (!) means larger attack surface * no ESI or ICP? * does not cache out of the box, requires config which might imply Loading @@ -156,12 +160,14 @@ Used by Cloudflare, MaxCDN and Netflix. ### Varnish Pros: * specifically built for caching * very flexible * grace mode can keep objects even after TTL expired (when backends go down) Cons: * no HTTPS support on frontend or backend in the free version * configuration is compiled and a bit weird * static content needs to be generated in the config file, or sidecar Loading Loading
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