Varnish for E-Commerce

Who should use Varnish for e-commerce?

Personalization is leading the way for e-commerce platforms in differentiating their user experience and brand. But performance is still paramount – personalization is essential but doesn’t matter if your users leave when things don’t move fast enough or don't work at all. E-commerce companies who will benefit from Varnish include:

Users of Magento or other e-commerce platforms that do not perform well when serving dynamic content
Sites with increasing amounts of hard-to-cache personalized content
Sites seeing an increase in mobile use among their customers; wanting to ensure speed across devices.
Sites concerned about serving pages fast, regardless of how much dynamic content makes up those pages

With Varnish, smart caching and cache invalidation (and Varnish Broadcaster for central control over simultaneous multi-instance invalidation), in combination with VHA and other features, ensures fast delivery and uptime at scale no matter the traffic demands on your site.

With Varnish E-Commerce Accelerator, you have a way to cache the uncacheable, i.e. personalized, dynamic content that traditionally slows content delivery down. Available for Magento and other platforms, the accelerator reduces backend operational costs and dramatically boosts website performance.

With Mobile Device Detection, and features like parallel ESI and Edgestash, which speed up page building and page loads by up to 100x, the consumer’s device of choice enjoys the same speedy, personalized performance however they visit your site.

Varnish gives you near-endless flexibility for configuring Varnish your own way.

With end-to-end TLS/SSL transport, WAF and total cache encryption, as well as VCL for request inspection and throttling, web traffic is secure against hijacking attempts and DDoS attacks.

Varnish High Availability (VHA) keeps your origin protected against a flood of traffic and replicates content to ensure 24/7 uptime in any condition.

With the Varnish Administration Console (VAC) you get a central point of control for all your Varnish instances and configurations, while Varnish Custom Statistics (VCS) delivers real-time site and delivery performance and troubleshooting data from which actionable insights can be taken.

Make sure you're ready for anything, anytime, anywhere.

When you think of e-commerce and online shopping, are you stuck in the mindset of “Black Friday/the Cyber Five is everything”?

The proliferation and increasing ease of online buying makes it clear that e-shopping is an everyday activity for shoppers globally. You may have made your site and apps bulletproof for the all-important Cyber Five shopping period - but what about all the rest of the time?

In this e-book we discuss some of the trends that illustrate e-commerce’s place as an everyday concern for online retailers and detail the strategies and technologies you can employ to be ready for anything - every day.

Varnish Solutions for E-commerce

Who should use Varnish for e-commerce?

Varnish for e-commerce features

Make sure you're ready for anything, anytime, anywhere.

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