What is web acceleration?

Web acceleration, or HTTP acceleration, helps to increase website speed and performance.

Web acceleration is achieved by using a reverse proxy or load balancer to optimize web traffic between requesting clients and backend servers.

Providing increased speed and reliability to websites, a web accelerator delivers immediate results in terms of ROI.

The Varnish solutions suite brings web acceleration, support and professional services with the Varnish API & Web Acceleration solution.

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