Layers of Caching: Key to scaling your website
From Open Source Bridge attendee wiki 2009
Caching is essential to ensuring that your website will survive a large spike in traffic. With so many different forms of caching, how are you supposed to know what works and why you should use it? The key is layering your site with several forms of caching.
Speakers: Lance Albertson, Narayan Newton
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cache types
- app
- query/result
- reverse proxy (CDN paid reverse proxy)
squid reverse proxy caching
varnish 2 and squid 2 good options
http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/
vps - cut out additional mods
questions have you looked at ESI includes ? ability for framework to advertise partials to reverse proxy, but parts of page from cache
CDN's? Akamai
Tools for load testing? cactai