June 19, 2013

Post: Nginx Powers Hulu.com ?

…, but what is interesting is the server line which shows nginx 0.5.32 I have checked and indeed images served… first site of this (planned) scale to run Nginx. So far even though Nginx was used by many major companies in Russia…

Comment: mysql-proxy, urgh performance and scalability ?

If Ha proxy or mysql proxy is no good for you then please look into f5 load balancers for load balancing. Read/write can be done at application level aswell. Nginx can also be used for load balancing and is quite efficient and lightweight.

Post: Dot-Org Pavilion at the Percona Live MySQL Conference

…-source project that’s interesting to MySQL users, such as Nginx, PHPMyAdmin, Drupal, Jenkins, PHP, and so on? Percona just published…

Comment: Innodb Performance Optimization Basics

Could you please indicate some values for 512 mb ram that runs nginx, php-fpm, mysql?

Comment: Caching could be the last thing you want to do

@Twirrim – similar experience here. We did experiment with varnish fronting things and did see a nice speedup. However some code changes are needed. Here’s a site we did some work for a hosting provider. http://nginx.openstream.ch/ But you are right, out the box performance is abysmal.

Comment: Caching could be the last thing you want to do

… take advantage of all optimisations possible. 3) Ditch Apache, use nginx & FastCGI. Hard to understate how much of a performance drag…

Comment: APC or Memcached

… as costly connections to database. Use both, use it with nginx instead of Apache, and be prepared to be blown off…

Post: Percona is hiring a consultant

…-party storage engines and appliances, etc. Technologies such as LVS, Nginx, Sphinx, and load balancers. Other operating systems such FreeBSD and…

Comment: Pitfall of proxying HTTP requests through Lighttpd

…? A while back I also assumed such logic and implemented nginx proxying in front of an apache webfarm (+-25 webservers). Too…

Comment: MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant - part 1

… on separate machines connected over ethernet. Our web servers run nginx and have a tiny memory footprint, we dedicate the rest…