Varnish Enterprise 6 (Ubuntu)
Varnish Software Inc | 6.0.9r4 Release 1Linux/Unix, Ubuntu 18.04 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Improves website speed to topnotch
What do you like best?
It just does an amazing thing putting our website to top speed, which is a significant factor in improving our search rankings. It also helps decrease memory usage and we have lesser downtime errors now, too. Configuring our system for optimal performance has also been easier with this software.
What do you dislike?
Documentation can be improved to provide more details. Also, https should be natively supported because this is a standard to all websites these days. While there is a well-detailed manual, only our senior developers have had luck in managing this software, so maybe it should be more user-friendly or the UI can be updated.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The speed across all our websites have been greatly accelerated. We no longer have to bend our architecture just to improve performance because Varnish is already doing the job for us while keeping our backend protected.
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Great experience
What do you like best?
The software is amazing, furthermore It's really nice to work with VARNISH SOFTWARE team.
What do you dislike?
There was nothing to dislike at all. Software has no flaws.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Varnish Software increased speed of the website, and lowered AWS bill significantly
Varnish review 23.02
What do you like best?
The support is really good, very quick response on the main website (the chat). I got a response in less one minute.
The help and information provided was very clear.
I also got a phone call with an engineer so I can detail some architectural and technical concepts.
Otherwise, Varnish features are stable, no major problem and bug.
The help and information provided was very clear.
I also got a phone call with an engineer so I can detail some architectural and technical concepts.
Otherwise, Varnish features are stable, no major problem and bug.
What do you dislike?
it needs maybe a little more details on tutorials
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we are using Varnish for caching our websites pages, and accelerated clients access. So it clearly improve users experience.
Currently we use Drupal 8.0 as cms (front), and connect Varnish via a plugin which is available on their marketplace.
Which makes it very easy to use and understand for administrators.
Currently we use Drupal 8.0 as cms (front), and connect Varnish via a plugin which is available on their marketplace.
Which makes it very easy to use and understand for administrators.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
You can have a trial to evaluate the product and also a very good assistance on the website. Actually Varnish have a very good compatibility with CMS (Drupal, Wordpress, ...).
Commercial features add significant value
What do you like best?
The commercial modules add features that have simplified our environment configuration.
What do you dislike?
We initially got the commercial support because of a crash bug with the open source version, that also was present in the commercial version. Varnish resolved the bug and we have been stable since. The inconvenience of paying to fix a bug was offset by the features available in the commercial version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We initially got the commercial support because of a crash bug with the open source version, that also was present in the commercial version.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The support and features of the commercial version have been worth the expense. The support has been responsive, and worked with us to remedy questions, hardships and configuration assistance.
The definition of production quality
What do you like best?
Code base originated from and authored by BSD kernel developers implies uncompromised quality and attention to code correctness. Like BSD, Varnish may not always have the latest features but what is released is always 100% rock solid, battle hardened and trustworthy for any size production workload.
What do you dislike?
The threading model is a bit dated and difficult to tune, compared to competing per-core event loop models. Also the commercial product is slow to release it's improvements back to the community version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cost savings by reducing traffic to back-end and less reliance on expensive cloud services. Zero downtime deployments. Real-time statistics on the performance of the back-end services. VCL and VMODs are great for implementing efficient workarounds for bugs in legacy back-end applications that cannot be easily changed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is a product that is easy to use but difficult to master. Consider hiring an expert to avoid configuration pitfalls. Money well spent.
Does the job - without any trouble at all
What do you like best?
The system is very stable and does the job without using a lot of resources.
By reading the manual you learn so much stuff you never thought about in the past. The people at Varnish obviously know a thing or two about their domain.
By reading the manual you learn so much stuff you never thought about in the past. The people at Varnish obviously know a thing or two about their domain.
What do you dislike?
The Varnish system is light weight. There are no frills attached (in a good way). So you need some time to discover the possibilities to operate/monitor the installation and to debug your configuration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Taking load from the backend and robustness/stability when it comes to spikes are our main goals. Speed is a nice extra.
Refinitiv Reverse Proxy
What do you like best?
the performence, the flexibility of configuration vith VCL, testing with VTC, the vmods
What do you dislike?
TLS not supported on the backend side in the opensource version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reverse Proxy used as a gateway to 100s of background services. This lead to a huge vcl configuration with 1000s of routing rules...
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take the Varnish Plus.
Advance content handling software
What do you like best?
This tool has helped me to market my products by providing me a platform which not only provides me the authenticity of my generated content and also helps to secure it. This software provides a global platform which is providing me quality services for the content rendering to network edge. Now I am capable of approaching the large audience and make sure them the availability of my content and Varnish assures me that it is latency-free content. Overall its performance is amazing.
What do you dislike?
One of the main things which concern me is that no notifications are provided if in any case there is some security threat to my content. In addition its pricing policy needs to be negotiated because it is limited in its features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Now I am not at all worried about the latency in the content, as it has empowered me to control the availability of the content to my audience. It is optimized software with no need of any CDNs dues to which I feel more confident in competitive delivery of the content to my customers.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This tool really needs the technical knowledge to utilize it to the fullest. I highly recommend this tool, if you are a content managing agency then it will help you in the continuous supply of it to your customers.
The best content management tool
What do you like best?
Varnish ahs opened new doors for me to manage my financial status that was associated with the content budget and through this software I am no more worried about the down time processes. Varnish has empowered me by giving the authority to control the memory usage and I have found new ways to secure the origin server. Now I am relaying on it for the better engagement with my audience as I am providing them the quality content along with quality services which are only possible through varnish which has made easier for me to control the traffic on my websites so that the content access becomes fast.
What do you dislike?
I have found it a costly solution and the pricing policy need to be revised further its purchasing and installment is a time consuming process. A lot of times I face the issue in content upload and contacted the customer support team, the response was very delay. I still feel there is much room for the betterment regarding the interface of the software and about the features too.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Through varnish I stay online and manage the PoPs. Varnish is very user friendly application, once you get to know it, you will easily handle the workload. For me this tool has become very useful and beneficial.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This tool will help you to tackle your content in much effect way and will help you to deliver more precise results to your customers. I will surely recommend this tool to entire business sector.
Essential website architecture component
What do you like best?
Stable and resilient, amazing speedy HTTP answers
What do you dislike?
HTTPS is not "out of the box" supported. Currently HTTPS is a must have for any website, the hitch implementation should be varnish embedded
Lack of complexed and current VCL examples
Some modules seem pretty new and need a lot of work to be used (like WAF, API protection, ...)
Varnish application enhancements and new functionnalities and module are hidden in sub minors updates (like new resolver module in 6.0.6-R8 ?!?!?! headerplus in 6.0.6-R6 ?! why not a 6.X ?)
Documentation is shared between the opensource project, varnish software blogs, and varnish software release notes varnish software wiki and varnish software documentation. Infrequent update of the varnish book.
Lack of complexed and current VCL examples
Some modules seem pretty new and need a lot of work to be used (like WAF, API protection, ...)
Varnish application enhancements and new functionnalities and module are hidden in sub minors updates (like new resolver module in 6.0.6-R8 ?!?!?! headerplus in 6.0.6-R6 ?! why not a 6.X ?)
Documentation is shared between the opensource project, varnish software blogs, and varnish software release notes varnish software wiki and varnish software documentation. Infrequent update of the varnish book.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Accelerating website
Protecting backend and application architecture
Protecting backend and application architecture
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Start with the basics : a varnish training..
Don't use pretty old code you may find on github or stack-exchange
Don't use pretty old code you may find on github or stack-exchange
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