I am setting up a single Debian server serving Magento with Mysql. High load is expected (millions of hits per day). I've been reading various people's comments and found so many different setups but I am not sure what to do if I want to. Load balancing between several servers would of course be nice but I have only one server.
I'm considering using 2 virtual servers, 1 running Apache facing the internet (e.g. www.example.com) running over https and other running ngnix on a private ip connecting to the main server to serve static content e.g. /data (css, PDF's, etc). The machines will both be hosted in a VM environment both running on the same network.
Nginx is a web server / proxy server, according to Wikipedia, this is the description:
I'm currently writing a web app in Node.js and will soon be setting up my Linux server to make it live. I'm curious, is it worth running Nginx for my Node app's static files? Is it running Nginx to reverse proxy to any other Node apps that maybe running on my server, or should I just use something like node-http-proxy and not use Nginx at all? My Node app will be using socket.io.
I have a website running Nginx and Apache, ...Apache deals with PHP files, and Nginx the html static files, we have now changed the site so there are no html static files, only PHP files and this has heavy load on the server, so I wanted to put the nginx as a reverse proxy cache, so that the php files coming from Apache will be cached and delivered static...
I'm having a problem migrating a website from Apache to nginx.
I have an nginx server sitting in front of apache running django.
Most of my site is static content: http://www.grovemade.com/
My app server can handle the pieces that needs to be dynamic just fine (POST, cart, order status, faq, etc.).
A far far majority of hits are to static pages like product pages, about pages, ajax get requests.
It handles like a champ serving pages straight out of memcac
I was looking at the setup of reverse proxies, like nginx in front of apache, to reduce load on webservers for serving static content.
For any given URL, our web pages will have different parts static and dynamic. How do reverse proxies know when to serve resources themselves, or pull it from the source web server behind them?
From what I've read both NGINX and OS will cache static files being served in memory. Is there a way to set how much RAM NGINX is allowed to use? My web server will be exclusively serving a large amount of ephemeral static files from disk and I want these to be served from RAM when possible.
I also saw a post that claimed reading from disk will block an entire nginx worker. Is this true?
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