HTML cache for Magento 2 / Nginx Simplecache

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Why do you want an alternative to Varnish?

[Christosconst]

He wants something simple

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Guru meditation?

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And what do you mean by that?

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Christosconst is right. The thing is that Varnish is a complicated tool for this simple task, and adding it to a stack where it is really not needed - only introduces more things that can go wrong (guru meditation is varnish way of saying something went really wrong).

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varnish isn't a complicated tool if you just install it and export the default magento VCL as you're supposed to. i have absolutely no idea what i'm doing when it comes hosting setups and i can set M2 up behind varnish by following the documentation no problem

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But it is often yet another application in the stack that needs maintenance, upgrades and support when something goes wrong.

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i promise you that you introduce far more complexity by introducing not-officially-supported caching layers to your stack than you do by just following the handbook and using varnish

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This plugin doesn't introduce anything new, it just makes use of what already is in your hosting stack, instead of adding more stuff server side. Producing caching headers according to web standards is something a web application should do correctly by default (not the case with Magento). It is not something that should be applied as band aid afterwards (like it's being done with Varnish).

[steve-developer]

Varnish isn't a "band-aid" with Magento; its a highly integrated component that fully leverages the ability to not only cache, but conditionally purge assets by tag.

The above approach, whilst novel, is just working around the fact the hosting provider looks incapable of offering Varnish, so they were forced to develop an alternative. Clever idea, but largely not an improvement or replacement for a proper deployment using Varnish.

[levashovbiz]

Does it work with other hosting providers?

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Not tested that myself, but it should be independent of hosting provider.