Welcome to the Varnish project Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator. It uses the advanced features in Linux 2.6, FreeBSD 6/7 and Solaris 10 to achieve its high performance. Some of the features include A modern design VCL - a very flexible configuration language Load balancing with health checking of backends Partial support for ESI (the sensible part of ESI) URL rewr