For many reasons, it’s a good idea to have a HTTP accelerator/reverse proxy on your webserver to take some of the burdens of HTTP and cache away from Apache and PHP. Squid is most commonly used for this purpose, but after hearing about fellow Dane Poul-Henning Kamp’s creation, Varnish, I decided to try that out before messing with that many-armed monster, Squid.

And I was very pleasantly surprised.

As a long time open source user and a chronic challenger of own assumptions, I often test out the alternatives to my current prefrences. While I used Linux, I tended to switch desktop environments every two months or so. I tried out all the e-mail clients, all the browsers, all the VCSes, and even (almost) all the text editors. Before settling with Drupal, I tried out all the CMSes I could find.

I have long felt compelled by PostgreSQL, although it is in many ways a bastard in the Drupal community.