# Discourse behind Varnish?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [March 18, 2013, 11:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-behind-varnish/4864 "2013-03-18T11:48:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-behind-varnish/4864/3 "2013-03-18T23:26:01Z")

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> [@richp10](#):
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> cache everything under the /assets directory.

I would **strongly** recommend going with a origin pull CDN for assets as opposed to caching locally, CDNs are so cheap anyway.

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