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# Vinyl Cache Documentation

Vinyl Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents. Vinyl Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 - 1000x, depending on your architecture.

To get started with Vinyl Cache we recommend that you read the installation guide Vinyl Cache Installation. Once you have Vinyl Cache up and running we recommend that you go through our tutorial - The Vinyl Cache Tutorial, and finally the The Vinyl Cache Users Guide.

If you need to find out how to use a specific Vinyl Cache tool, the The Vinyl Cache Reference Manual contains detailed documentation over the tools. Changes from previous versions are located in the What’s new / Upgrading chapter. In closing, we have Poul-Hennings random outbursts, a collection of blog posts from Poul-Henning Kamp related to Vinyl Cache and HTTP.

Conventions used in this manual include:

> `service vinyl restart`

>   A command you can run, or a shortkey you can press. Used either in the terminal or after starting one of the tools.

> /usr/local/, vinyladm, sess_timeout

>   A utility, Vinyl configurable parameter or path.

> https://www.vinyl-cache.org/

>   A hyperlink.

Longer listings like example command output and VCL look like this:

    $ /opt/vinyl/sbin/vinyld -V
    vinyld (vinyl-9.0.0 revision 1234567)
    Copyright (c) 2006 Verdens Gang AS
    Copyright (c) 2006-2026 Varnish Software

- Vinyl Cache Installation
- The Vinyl Cache Tutorial
- The Vinyl Cache Users Guide
- The Vinyl Cache Reference Manual
- VCL Design Patterns
- What’s new / Upgrading
- The Vinyl cache Developers Guide
- Poul-Hennings random outbursts
- Vinyl Cache Glossary

## Indices and tables

- Index

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