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17th July 2007 - Link Blog

Just what web server should be sitting in front of my Rails application? Includes some interesting notes about Varnish, PHK’s high performance, highly configurable front-end caching server (essentially a much more modern version of Squid).

Posted 17th July 2007 at 1:29 pm

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