Varnish Software Reviews & Product Details

Varnish offers remarkable caching performance for content, drastically increasing the speed for content delivery and amplifying the user’s experience

The app manages or controls backend load, where it reduces the bandwidth expenses and offload traffic

The program is robust in supporting private content delivery, and this increases the cache hit rates

Varnish is highly configurable, where admins have refined control on matters caching

The app gives brilliant customer experience with improved content and response delivery Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up and tuning Varnish is a big challenge and technical involvement is a must

The app is resource intensive, where it needs a big RAM for efficient cache storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Varnish is a well-known frontend caching technology that is cross-platform, making it a significant accelerator for web applications. Customer Support is great and it can be easily integrated with systems to serve on top of our servers and serve the HTTP needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At the moment, I can't think of anything specific. However, having an AI agent available to assist with navigation and provide quick answers would be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Good commercial modules like https and json handling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Would love a cheaper price for use cases like only using it as a transient proxy (without CDN) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

deliver faster reliable web content through advance caching Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

debugging is tricky some require manual fine tuning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that they are building tools to help organizations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They need to pay more attention to their developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use varnish in our developing cdn infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

it's powerful language is also steepy to learning at the beginning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Varnish is really fast and powerfull . The Varnish Configuration Langage (VCL) is a must (think embedding Javascript to configure the cache). You can do everything with it.

I use varnish for caching popular content (VOD, Live, Static Assets) on hundred of servers, but also for Load Balancing API. Varnish support also distributed and multi-level of caching.

I haven't found any problems in many years. The support is fast, and helpfull. The support come from the developper so it's very easy to find issue with our hardware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's difficult to find a flaw for Varnish. Perhaps the cost of the solution ? But when i see the number of times i've open a ticket (3 in 8 years) I think the value is well spent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Cache HA Cluster and ESI (Edge Side Includes) features are often considered among the best aspects of Varnish Software due to their capability to optimize web performance and manage content delivery efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One drawback of Varnish Software is the lack of native support for Kubernetes as an ingress controller. While Varnish offers advanced routing, caching, and other features, its compatibility with Kubernetes and cncf solutions is limited, which can hinder its seamless integration within Kubernetes environments. This limitation could potentially be addressed to broaden the software's usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our web servers have become faster and more responsive thanks to Varnish software, this cuts down the waiting time for our pages. We managed to cope with large traffic spikes without any interruptions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only minor drawbacks I can think of are related to the aggressive caching approach. This approach sometimes requires custom code to make it suitable for automatic cache invalidation using cache tags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the standout features of Varnish Software is its Caching Brilliance.It has significantly boosted our website and application performance by storing frequently accessed content in memory, reducing the load on backend servers. This results in faster page load times and improved user experiences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have found it to be resource-intensive , particularly in memory usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.