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does having varnish as a reverse proxy/cacher with nginx backend for dynamic content a good idea? im looking for a way to really speed content up when dealing with a ddos or get flood.

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closed as primarily opinion-based by Tom O'Connor Aug 25 '13 at 21:37


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Using varnish for caching is a really good idea since varnish was designed for caching. You will get a specific caching policy description language, proper statistics and logging, some tracing capabilities. I prefer to use varnish for caching and nginx for other tasks (like FastCGI proxying in your case).

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