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Implementing grace mode in Varnish 5.2


by Danila Vershinin, February 6, 2018

Here’s how you can implement Varnish grace mode with Varnish 5.2 and have it work for purged objects too.

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Confirming Varnish cache status for a page


by Danila Vershinin, January 20, 2018

Easily check whether a particular page was cached with Varnish.

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Varnish – cache on cookies


by Danila Vershinin, May 30, 2017

Cache those logged in pages with Varnish!

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Varnish as Web Application Firewall


by Danila Vershinin, May 16, 2017

Protect your web application using.. simple Varnish VCL coding.

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How to cache things longer on Varnish than on the client


by Danila Vershinin, May 9, 2017

How to cache things longer on Varnish than on the client. Possible solutions

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ServerPilot


by Danila Vershinin, April 12, 2017

Don’t use ServerPilot. They are scamming you. Here is how and why!

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Varnish Default TTL


by Danila Vershinin, April 2, 2017

What is Varnish default TTL and how to set it to a correct value

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Varnish, SSL, Brotli, Gzip and PageSpeed. Putting things together


by Danila Vershinin, April 1, 2017

Hard choices when implementing Varnish, SSL, PageSpeed, Gzip and Brotli altogether explained

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Varnish 4 and 5. Log slow backend requests


by Danila Vershinin, March 21, 2017

Log slow backend requests using Varnish utility varnishncsa

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Cloudbleed and Varnish


by Danila Vershinin, February 24, 2017

Here is why you shouldn’t use shared cache like Cloudflare. Don’t trust your data to a third party and make use of real private cache – Varnish

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