archwiki: Do page view caching[1] with nginx for improved performance

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Merged archwiki: Do page view caching[1] with nginx for improved performance

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Merged Kristian Klausen requested to merge klausenbusk/infrastructure:archwiki-cache-at-nginx into master 8 months ago

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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.

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archwiki: Do page view caching[1] with nginx for improved performance

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