Varnish vs XCache
A side-by-side look at Varnish and XCache. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Varnish
Network & Admin
Varnish is an open source web application accelerator designed to speed up websites by caching and optimizing content delivery. It sits in front of web servers and caches frequently-accessed content, reducing requests to backend servers.
cachingcontent-deliveryacceleration
XCache
Development
XCache is a free open source PHP opcode cache. It stores precompiled PHP bytecode in shared memory, improving PHP performance by removing the need to load and parse scripts on each request. It's easy to install and configure in PHP.
cachingperformanceopcodephp
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