Comments on: Take Off With Nginx http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5970/ Open Source, Open Standards Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: bugmenot http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5970/#comment-5333 bugmenot Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5970/#comment-5333 Amazing. Thanks Jeremy!<br /> Just one question: How does this compare to lighttpd? Amazing. Thanks Jeremy!
Just one question: How does this compare to lighttpd?

]]> By: qrkyboy http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5970/#comment-5334 qrkyboy Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5970/#comment-5334 I don't know about recently, but lighttpd suffered some leakiness a while back (which is in part why nginx became so popular). I've tested nginx for static content and even on smaller servers concurrency+requests I can max out the ethernet without the server hiccuping (this is a dual quad-core Xeon X5355). It simply doesn't run out of power and easily overpowers Apache for anything static. It's clumsy on PHP, but Apache is awful on Rails, so it's a choice of poison. One factor not mentioned here is nginx has Flash streaming available in the binary and some pretty slick stats are possible using rrdtool, and of course gzip compression is available. It's extremely small, extremely simple to configure, and I've never been able to crash it in comparable tests against Apache where Apache ran through all memory and then began to fail. If you're running Rails, you'll probably want to run nginx (the dev version 0.6.30 is just as stable in my tests as the "stable" version FYI). I noticed even CNN is using it for their politics blog. I can't recommend it highly enough, and I've been configuring webservers from scratch for almost 15yrs. I don’t know about recently, but lighttpd suffered some leakiness a while back (which is in part why nginx became so popular). I’ve tested nginx for static content and even on smaller servers concurrency+requests I can max out the ethernet without the server hiccuping (this is a dual quad-core Xeon X5355). It simply doesn’t run out of power and easily overpowers Apache for anything static. It’s clumsy on PHP, but Apache is awful on Rails, so it’s a choice of poison. One factor not mentioned here is nginx has Flash streaming available in the binary and some pretty slick stats are possible using rrdtool, and of course gzip compression is available. It’s extremely small, extremely simple to configure, and I’ve never been able to crash it in comparable tests against Apache where Apache ran through all memory and then began to fail. If you’re running Rails, you’ll probably want to run nginx (the dev version 0.6.30 is just as stable in my tests as the “stable” version FYI). I noticed even CNN is using it for their politics blog. I can’t recommend it highly enough, and I’ve been configuring webservers from scratch for almost 15yrs.

]]> By: gaveen http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5970/#comment-5335 gaveen Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5970/#comment-5335 I'm not sure about generic performance ratings, but I know for a fact that Nginx is very popular in the Ruby on Rails world (used as a HTTP server/proxy/load balancer) and also serves several high traffic sites. Ezra of EngineYard has written several <a href="http://brainspl.at/articles/tag/nginx" rel="nofollow">blog posts</a> related to Nginx. <br /> <br /> Sorry I couldn't find the actual benchmarks, but as far as I remember Nginx outperformed everything in Rails cases. Nginxs' ability to <a href="http://macournoyer.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/get-intimate-with-your-load-balancer-tonight/" rel="nofollow">use Unix domain sockets</a> also has been out to use. I’m not sure about generic performance ratings, but I know for a fact that Nginx is very popular in the Ruby on Rails world (used as a HTTP server/proxy/load balancer) and also serves several high traffic sites. Ezra of EngineYard has written several blog posts related to Nginx.

Sorry I couldn’t find the actual benchmarks, but as far as I remember Nginx outperformed everything in Rails cases. Nginxs’ ability to use Unix domain sockets also has been out to use.

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