Varnish as a redirector for a millions URLs

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu May 23 16:45:36 CEST 2013


In message <CA+=Uhp8Eb6a6tgERfoMpiDg1Od15QAw+ZLBsuU+zTa++s4W8OQ at mail.gmail.com>
, Aleem B writes:

>It's based on a DB lookup. Currently I am using NGINX + Redis and there are
>about a million URLs.

Then you can either have a backend server do the lookup and have
varnish cache the result, or you can write a VMOD for varnish which
does the lookup and generate the redirects that way.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk at FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



More information about the varnish-dev mailing list