Nginx

http://blog.matt-darby.com/posts/697-apache-passenger-vs-nginx-mongrel comparing 2 popular ways to deploy ruby-on-rails app

http://blog.zhuzhaoyuan.com/2009/08/creating-a-hello-world-nginx-module/ blog post with a source of “hello world” nginx module

http://blog.zhuzhaoyuan.com/2009/09/nginx-internals-slides-video/ 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 :-)

http://bethesignal.org/blog/2009/07/22/watching-nginx-upstreams-with-collectd/ tells how to monitor nginx by tailing it’s logs using collectd. ( same can also be done with munin)

http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,2073 some notes about keep-alive proxy setup for apache

http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,1008,page=1 post on nginx forum that provides some insights about central logging / log collections

http://wiki.codemongers.com/Main main source of Nginx info in English. Documentation, config examples, code cross-reference info.

http://hostinghelp.biz/content/ddos-%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE-%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C-%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8-%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80-%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE-%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD-linux-%D1%81-apache article describes some recipes to counter DDoS using iptables limit and string matching filters. Useful

http://blog.emmettshear.com/post/2008/03/03/Dont-use-Pound-for-load-balancing another evidence that if u need a loadbalancer – ngnix is the answer these days [and maybe perlball]

http://barry.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/load-balancer-update/ an entry from wordpress.com sysadim about “So… A couple weeks ago we finished converting all our load balancers to Nginx. "