Kristian Klausen dfbbafa2ff archwiki: Do page view caching[1] with nginx for improved performance ... We have used MediaWiki's file cache[2] until now, but recently the wiki has been hammered with requests from some stupid Chinese bots/crawlers. Caching at the web server level is faster as we avoid the PHP overhead and it seems to make a difference (performance wise), especially when the bots/crawlers are hitting us. This is usual done with Varnish[3], but I went with a simple Python service (30 LOC) for handling the PURGE requests as that is much simpler thn adding Varnish to our stack. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Performance_tuning&oldid=6670283#Page_view_caching [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:File_cache [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Varnish_caching Fix #315		2024-08-11 18:07:50 +02:00
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nginx-cache-purge	archwiki: Do page view caching[1] with nginx for improved performance	2024-08-11 18:07:50 +02:00
robots.txt	archwiki: update robots.txt	2024-01-03 13:26:43 +01:00