Varnish is most definitely a huge win. It can be somewhat of a pain to install if you're not using Chef or something, though. Here's some helpful info I compiled that might come in handy for first-timers:
Installing Varnish with nginx, Passenger, and Monit on Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid:
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Varnish is most definitely a huge win. It can be somewhat of a pain to install if you're not using Chef or something, though. Here's some helpful info I compiled that might come in handy for first-timers:
Installing Varnish with nginx, Passenger, and Monit on Ubuntu 8.10 intrepid:
http://trevorturk.com/2009/10/22/installing-varnish-with-ngi...
It's a bit out of date now, but basically still applicable.
Also, here are some packages for Sprinkle, which is an alternative to Chef that I like:
http://github.com/trevorturk/sprinkle-packages
Varnish is not installed by the default example, but look in packages/varnish.rb and you'll be able to sort it out.
Go go gadget Varnish!