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As the developer of Varnish, Poul Henning, wrote back in 2011 on https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/ssl.html and again this year on https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/ssl_again.html Varnish has and will have no SSL support.

If this is true for Apache servers (note https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-varnish-cache-4-0-with-ssl-termination-on-ubuntu-14-04 has instructions on how to configure both on Nginx), then I wonder what are Varnish alternatives for Drupal sites that need to be running through HTTPS (like, for example, Drupal Commerce sites)?

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Content delivery platforms like CloudFlare and Fastly offer a wide range of SSL/TLS options. The question is, what are you trying to accomplish? Note that Varnish really won't do you any good for high transaction-volume sites because you're dealing with authenticated traffic. However, services like the ones listed above can be useful for delivering assets or for serving anonymous traffic.

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    Just wanted to say that Drupal 8 can cache authenticated users Drupal 8's Dynamic Page Cache I'm sure you Commerce Guys already knew this, so this is just for the readers =) – No Sssweat Jan 9 '16 at 5:27
  • Good point! Drupal 8 fixes quite a bit in that arena! – nvahalik Jan 9 '16 at 10:55
  • So how do D7 Commerce sites deal with the authenticated user issue? By scaling their server horizontally? – No Sssweat Jan 9 '16 at 14:57
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It all depends to what you want to do. Look at this tutorial here https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-varnish-cache-4-0-with-ssl-termination-on-ubuntu-14-04

and here http://blog.ajnicholls.com/varnish-apache-and-https/

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