This guide walks you through installing HAProxy, configuring it to balance HTTP traffic between two Nginx instances on ports 8080 and 8081, and verifying the setup by repeatedly accessing a test page that alternates between the two backend servers.
This guide walks you through installing and configuring Nginx for extreme request rates, optimizing kernel TCP settings, and using Tsung to benchmark a server that can sustain more than 900,000 requests per second, with detailed command examples and configuration snippets.
This guide explains key concepts of open source, compilation, and executables, then details the configure‑make‑install workflow and provides a step‑by‑step tutorial for compiling, installing, configuring, and testing Nginx from source on a Linux system.
Learn how to fine‑tune Nginx by adjusting key global, events, and HTTP settings—such as worker processes, connection limits, gzip compression, and file caching—to maximize throughput and reduce latency under heavy client loads, with a complete example configuration and restart instructions.
This guide explains how to create an Nginx configuration file that denies access from unwanted user agents, empty agents, and non‑GET/HEAD/POST requests, shows how to include the file in the server block, reload Nginx, and test the rules with curl.
The article examines the rise of high‑concurrency web connections, explains how richer front‑end interactions increase load, and presents a range of optimization techniques—from caching and request merging to server‑side memory and CPU reductions using Apache MPM modes, Nginx, and sendfile—to improve web service efficiency.
This article examines typical mistakes in Nginx‑PHP configurations—such as misplaced index directives, misuse of the if statement, and fastcgi parameter issues—and presents a cleaner, more secure configuration that leverages inheritance, try_files, and proper fastcgi settings.
This guide explains how to identify high‑frequency visitor IPs from Nginx logs and configure Nginx to deny those IPs—or entire ranges—using block files, includes, and reload commands, providing both basic and advanced blocking techniques.
This article walks through fixing missing static files, collecting assets, restarting uWSGI, and applying essential Django settings and template tweaks to successfully deploy a Django application in a production environment using Nginx and uWSGI.
This guide shares practical, experience‑backed techniques for optimizing Nginx and PHP‑FPM on high‑traffic Linux servers, covering UNIX sockets, worker processes, upstream load balancing, logging, compression, caching, timeouts, buffer sizes, kernel tweaks, and monitoring.
This article explains php‑fpm’s architecture—prefork with async I/O, configurable event mechanisms, and its concurrency model identical to nginx—while offering practical configuration tips such as optimal worker counts and highlighting stability considerations compared to nginx and OpenResty.
This article explains the TCP KeepAlive mechanism, why load balancers like LVS and F5 drop idle connections after 90 seconds, how to configure Linux kernel and socket options, and the correct way to enable TCP KeepAlive in Nginx to prevent premature disconnects.
This article compares the core features, use cases, and performance characteristics of popular web and application servers—Apache, Tomcat, Jetty, Nginx, and JBoss—highlighting their distinctions in handling static versus dynamic content, scalability, and integration with Java and other technologies.
This article examines common website architecture layers, compares hardware (F5) and software (LVS, Nginx) load‑balancing solutions, discusses high‑availability setups with Keepalived/Heartbeat, evaluates their network dependencies, and offers practical recommendations for choosing and monitoring load‑balancers, file servers, and databases in high‑traffic environments.
This article details the design, architecture, implementation steps, and early results of a graded release system for Baidu's mobile Tieba product, showing how staged rollouts, traffic splitting, and automated validation improve release quality and user experience.
