Comments on: OK nginx is cool

By: ynw

ynw — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:07:37 +0000

It shines for load balancing and for serving static files.

By: Jacques Marneweck

Jacques Marneweck — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 04:19:26 +0000

Various people use it for load-balancing.

By: Joe Van Dyk

Joe Van Dyk — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:34:08 +0000

So nginx w/ event ports is better on solaris for serving static files than lighttpd?

By: Pavel Titov

Pavel Titov — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:32:56 +0000

static web server? it supports fastcgi.

By: Adam Lindsay

Adam Lindsay — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:14:10 +0000

I get a 404 on the pcre link.
(But thanks for the builds… I’ve wondered about nginx for a while.)

By: Benjamin Stiglitz

Benjamin Stiglitz — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:49:01 +0000

Event Ports look an awful lot like kqueue on BSD/OS X. Which means that they’re totally awesome, because all the asynchronous APIs completely suck. It’s too bad they didn’t support signals in the queue, though…

By: Michael Koziarski

Michael Koziarski — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:44:46 +0000

I’ve been really impressed by nginx’s static file serving. Not quite as flexible as an apache or a lighttpd, but it’s perfectly functional.

The biggest user-visible performance benefits I’ve noticed is:

# Use distributed asset hosts
# Bundle all your JS and CSS into one file which you munge and combine at deploy time.
# Make sure you’re sending all the cacheability headers.

The ‘two-requests-per-host’ limitation in the http rfc makes some js or css heavy sites like the connector feel much much slower than the network tab in firefox indicates. All the rails optimisation in the world won’t help you if your application is spending 90% of its time sending static assets to users

All the best!