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We’ve recently had to install Varnish on our web server but it’s causing a few problems. I’ve had Rackspace open up certain URLs to allow cookies but some of our users still aren’t seeing our comments form when they’re logged in. Does anyone have any experience with Varnish and EE installations?

Also we were looking at a load balanced environment so we could remove Varnish from our server. We got all the way up to having Rackspace install a new firewall, load balancer and another web front end only to realise that we would essentially need to update the other web front end the same way we update or present front end (double work) which would mean another installation of EE. Anyone have any suggestions on load balancing and EE or should we just be looking for a cloud hosting setup to avoid the headaches?

Thanks for your help!

Hi, Andy. I only see one person mentioning Varnish, and I personally don’t have any experience using it.

Have you seen: EEDocs:// Handling Extreme Traffic?

Does any of that help?

I’ve tried all that. Like I said we’re looking at load balancing two servers to handle the load. Do you have any experience with that and using rsync?

We’re now having issues accessing our site from http://www.nationnews.com. We can access the site with nationnews.com and according to Network Solutions there’s nothing wrong with our DNS config.

Rackspace seems to think it’s EE’s fault but I’m not convinced of that. I know this isn’t a hosting forum but does anyone have any idea why this would be happening. Our readers are starting to complain and I’m really pulling my hair out right now.

Nice looking site.

It looks like you have an .htaccess in place. Does it have any sort of code to add www to the urls, or is it just to remove index.php? Can you test with no .htaccess in the mix?

Nice looking site.

Thanks. 😊

It looks like you have an .htaccess in place. Does it have any sort of code to add www to the urls, or is it just to remove index.php? Can you test with no .htaccess in the mix?

Yeah I’m using LG .htaccess generator. There’s no code to add www just removing index.php using the include method. Rackspace had removed the .htaccess file yesterday and it made no difference. Unless I need to disable it from the Control Panel.

Varnish is good but it’s really messing up our site. Question, do you know how EE processes the index page? That was a question asked by Rackspace and I was sorta clueless on that.

Andy,

What type of traffic are you getting? Using the Output and Debugging tools would be a good place to start identifying bottlenecks.

We got all the way up to having Rackspace install a new firewall, load balancer and another web front end only to realise that we would essentially need to update the other web front end the same way we update or present front end (double work) which would mean another installation of EE.

This would also mean having to buy another license of EE. If you search our forums for load balancing and replies by Nevin who runs EngineHosting there are a good few threads on load balancing with EE

Does anyone have any experience with Varnish and EE installations?

To be honest I haven’t heard of Vanish till now. I see people using eAccelerator, APC, xCache or Turck MMCache to good effect though

EE Wiki : Server Tuning and Capacity EE
EE Wiki : Optimize EE

Performance Guidelines

but some of our users still aren’t seeing our comments form when they’re logged in.

What version and build of EE are you using?
What is the full list of extensions you are using?
What is in your template regards your comment form?

What version and build of EE are you using?

Build:  20100415 Version 1.6.9

What is the full list of extensions you are using?

jQuery for the Control Panel (v.1.1.1)
Google Analytics Panel (v.1.1.5)
SL Field Formatting (v.1.0.2)
Gallery Extended Extension (v.2.2.5)
LG Better Meta (v.1.9.0)
LG Polls: Poll Question (v.1.0.9)
LG Data Matrix (v.1.1.1)
Comment Moderation Nag (v.1.0.3)
Advanced Captcha (v.1.0.2)
User (v.3.2.3)
Member Utilities (v.1.0.2)
LG Polls: Controller (v.1.0.9)
LG Quarantine (v.1.0.0)
Super Search (v.1.1.0.b2)
SL MailChimp Subscribe (v.1.1.3)
Tag Submit (v.2.6.6)
LG .htaccess Generator (v.1.0.0)
LG TinyMCE (v.1.3.3)
Static Page Caching (v.1.6.1)
MD Live Search (v.1.2.1)
CM faviconizEE (v.1.1.0)
Edit Menu (v.1.0.2)
LG Add Sitename (v.1.2.0)
Category Checkboxes (v.1.1.5)
Flash Messenger (v.1.0.0)
Edit Alert (v.1.1)
FieldFrame (v.1.3.5)
Pur Developer (v.1.2.1)
Custom System Messages (v.1.1.2)
Gypsy (v.1.0.6)
LG Live Look (v.1.0.4)
SL Developer Info (v.1.4.5)
Rating (v.2.3.3)
Template Inspector (v.1.0.1)
Tracker Extension (v.1.2.2)
Fresh Variables (v.1.1)

What is in your template regards your comment form?

Not sure I understand the question.

What’s in your comment form? Are you restricting comments to only logged in users, anything like that..

What’s in your comment form? Are you restricting comments to only logged in users, anything like that..

Yes actually. Only logged-in users can comment.

Have you tried with disabled extensions? Does that make any difference?