Load balancing with high availability can be tough to set up. Fortunately, Varnish HTTP Cache server provides a dead simple highly available load balancer that will also work as a caching server. The modern use of SSL/TLS for all traffic has made this a little harder as Vanish has to handle unencrypted traffic to cache it. This means that we will need to terminate and decrypt the HTTPS connections before they are handed off to Varnish. We will do this with Apache2.
