Archive for the 'nginx' Category

Apache passenger vs nginx mongrel | Matt-Darby.com

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

comparing 2 popular ways to deploy ruby-on-rails app

Joshua Zhu’s Blog » Creating a Hello World! Nginx Module

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

blog post with a source of “hello world” nginx module

Joshua Zhu’s Blog » Nginx Internals (Slides & Video)

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

very good presentation slides explaining nginx internals, such as main architecture, main event loops, core modules, processing pipelines, etc. Also there is a video of the talk , but it is mandarin, so YMMV :-)

Watching nginx upstreams with collectd | Be the signal

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

tells how to monitor nginx by tailing it’s logs using collectd. ( same can also be done with munin)

Experiences using nginx to front-end apache

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

some notes about keep-alive proxy setup for apache

[nginx forum post] Centralized logging for multiple servers

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

post on nginx forum that provides some insights about central logging / log collections

Nginx Wiki

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

main source of Nginx info in English. Documentation, config examples, code cross-reference info.

[russian] DDOS – что делать. Если сервер только один – Linux с Apache. | DDoS – what to do? if you have 1 server linux+apache

Friday, June 6th, 2008

article describes some recipes to counter DDoS using iptables limit and string matching filters. Useful

Don’t use Pound for load balancing – Optimize Prime [use Ngnix]

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

another evidence that if u need a loadbalancer — ngnix is the answer these days [and maybe perlball]

Load Balancer Update « Barry on WordPress

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

an entry from wordpress.com sysadim about “So… A couple weeks ago we finished converting all our load balancers to Nginx. ”