Are you looking forward to balance HTTP or HTTPS traffic to multiple back-end servers? Nginx is one of the best choices – it’s very lightweight, requires less resources and it’s completely free. You need to compile the nginx (there are many resources and howto’s) and add the following lines to your nginx.conf file: upstream webcluster [...]
Nginx developers have released two patches – one that fixes null pointer reference, gx_http_parse_complex_uri() buffer underflow. Update immediate or your site can be attacked and nginx stopped remotely (so I heard). Download the latest stable version and recompile the binary. Then run kill -USR2 nginx_master_pid Make sure you see new master nginx process running (you [...]
One of the best solutions for streaming Flash video nowadays is Nginx. It’s super fast, lightweight and does easily support thousands of concurrent connections without taking up much resources. By default flash streaming is not activated and you need to turn it on in compilation process. You enable flash streaming by: ./configure –with-http_flv_module …(add other [...]
Prepare for real performance boost. Run Nginx in a front of Apache and serve all static content directly from Nginx. All php script requests are transparently forwarded to Apache daemon and output forwarded back to Nginx that servers it to a web visitor. Web visitor -> Nginx -> static content -> Nginx -> Web visitor [...]
Alright fellows. Many folks are using Nginx nowadays and I thought we need to open a new category dedicated to Nginx. It’s fast, light-weight and reliable web server that’s becoming very popular. We will soon have some fresh content and howto’s about Nginx. Stay tunned!
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