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		stavros on Oct 25, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The perfect Django setup. I agree, varnish in front of nginx might be a bit overkill. We use varnish because we run apache, and I'm so infatuated with it that I recommend it to everyone. I've seen it pull off thousands of requests a second without breaking a sweat, then again nginx is no sloth either. We are considering switching from apache, but the current setup works so well that we don't want to mess with it :)

piotrSikora on Oct 25, 2010 [–]

Well, if your setup (Varnish+Apache) works for you then there is no need to change it (unless you really need to).

However, recommending this (Varnish+nginx) just leads to more people repeating the same mistake.

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