It's faster than anything out there, easier to set-up than anything out there (except the one-button Apache on a Mac) and can accelerate Apache up to 100x just by sitting in front of it. It will do the job of Ngix + Varnish as well as controlling a whole server farm. It's a truly amazing piece of software that sadly gets very little mention in the world. For instance, this is the software that runs the Firefox download sites and the BBC news site. Joyent and Amazon Web Services use it to.
(Disclaimer: I used to work for Zeus 4 years ago. I don't have anything to do with the company other than having friends in the dev team. ZTM is still my baby, though)
As many of HN's readers run web-app companies I recommend you take a look and at least play with the downloadable VM. The software, while expensive by free standards, is remarkably affordable by business standards.
IF you want to see some of the fun things you can do with it and get some idea of it's power and flexibility (especially the TrafficScript programming language it comes with)take a look here:
http://www.zeus.com/products/traffic-manager/index.html
It's faster than anything out there, easier to set-up than anything out there (except the one-button Apache on a Mac) and can accelerate Apache up to 100x just by sitting in front of it. It will do the job of Ngix + Varnish as well as controlling a whole server farm. It's a truly amazing piece of software that sadly gets very little mention in the world. For instance, this is the software that runs the Firefox download sites and the BBC news site. Joyent and Amazon Web Services use it to.
(Disclaimer: I used to work for Zeus 4 years ago. I don't have anything to do with the company other than having friends in the dev team. ZTM is still my baby, though)
As many of HN's readers run web-app companies I recommend you take a look and at least play with the downloadable VM. The software, while expensive by free standards, is remarkably affordable by business standards.