Advanced Features

Varnish

Varnish Cache is a web accelerator also popular as an HTTP accelerator. You can install it in front of any web server that speaks the HTTP protocol and configure it to cache the content. Varnish Cache is very, very fast and will increase the speed of your site. One of the major features of Varnish Cache is the flexibility of its domain-specific language, VCL, which enables you to choose how incoming requests should be handled.

Memcached

Memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory object caching system for boosting the loading speed of dynamic database-powered web sites. It is used to decrease the number of times an external data source (such as a DB or API) is read by caching data and objects in RAM. The Memcached system uses a client'server architecture. The Memcached memory object caching system is employed by some of the most traffic-intensive sites on the World Wide Web and is supported by popular web applications like Joomla and WordPress.

Node.js

Node.js is a software platform for writing scalable network apps. Built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime, Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking input/output model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for real-time data-rich Internet applications. Node.js uses Google's V8 JavaScript engine, libUV, and several in-built libraries.

InnoDB

InnoDB is the default database engine for the MySQL open-source database management system. A storage engine is the primary software component that a database management system uses to create, retrieve, modify and delete data from a database. Its latest edition features considerable improvements in performance, security and usability. InnoDB offers the standard ACID-compliant database transaction features, along with foreign key support. It is included by default in most binaries distributed by MySQL AB.