Varnish Cache Purge Plugin (to download, that is)

Regarding this very topic I started the other day I've made my own Varnish cache purge plugin in the last two days. As the name might hint at, it purges modified entries / invalidates them from a Varnish caching server. Hooray for incredible web site loading speeds thanks to caching with up-do-date pages at the same time! This is not only extremely useful for regularly updated blogs, but also for those sites that use MT's internal commenting system.

Installation

• Make sure you have installed Varnish::API (available via CPAN)


• Upload the plugin


• Enjoy

That's it. I hope. Well, it has some configuration paremters in the system wide plugin settings, but they're pointing to default values. You might want to check setting the password, though, if you have set up one for Varnish.

Requirements

• You'll need a server running Varnish, of course


• Tested on MT5


• Not a requirement, but speeds are almost ridiculous in combination with nginx (~60ms TTFB both cold and warm start) - this is high availability territorium

Known limitations / caveats

• Not tested on MultiBlogs setups, but it should still work out of the box


• Although any static publishing event (aka synchronous rebuilding) triggers this nifty plugin, queue publishing doesn't, and I don't know why (build_file is only being called when publishing statically, so make sure everything important is set up as this)


• There's no more support than via this forum (except as a professional service, of course). Also, this plugin is only being developed as much as I need it (and it works perfectly for me already)

Download
Varnish Cache Purge Plugin 1.0.0

Important stuff: Being provided as is bla bla, it's GPL etc., so you are more than welcome to make something even more cool from it.

Oh, and seriously, I think this plugin could give MT a huge boost in corporate high availability environments where sweet spots of caching and fresh content matter. If only Boing Boing knew.