varnish server-side caching

[[Digital^Dude] ®]

Every time I open the website from a different PC, the website loads from
the backend. I can see that from the way the page loads, as well as from:
varnishtop -b -i TxURL
However, if I access the browsed pages again, it loads rapidly.

Is this what varnish is meant to do? I mean, for server-side caching, it
should load pages to each client from the same cache that is present on the
server once it is created (as soon as the first visitor comes on the
website.)
And it should only expire the cache when TTL is reached.

The result of this should be that the website should appear slow only for
the very first visitor and not after that to any visitor until ttl.

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:41 PM, [Digital^Dude] ®
<millennium.bug at gmail.com>wrote:

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> My default.vcl is attached.
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> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Enno van Amerongen <enno at tty.nl> wrote:
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>> *From:* [Digital^Dude] ® [mailto:millennium.bug at gmail.com]
>> *Subject:* varnish server-side caching
>>
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I set up varnish 3.0.3 on my centos box. I have magento running on a
>> website. Once the website is opened, it browses rapidly. But every time a
>> new user lands on the website, it takes ages to load the first page. If
>> varnish does server-side caching, shouldn't it pick up the index page from
>> the cache and spit it out?
>>
>> Please suggest what I can do to make the initial hit on the website as
>> speedy as the rest of the surfing hits.
>>
>>
>> So, what does your VCL look like? what headers are you setting on the
>> backend? what about cookies?
>>
>> Maybe this will help:
>> https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCLExampleCacheCookies
>>
>> Enno
>>
>>
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