Here is a post detailing an interesting setup of Web servers made to go against one another in real time. This could prove to be entertaining for benchmarkers or perhaps decisive for those who need an ultimate killer proof that their favorite Web server can kick some behind.
In this post, we are going to share a list of software and configurations ideal for a cPanel shared hosting server.
The error below is typical in a new Nginx installation for a busy web site. Nginx apparently hits a user resource as well as configuration limitation:
Nginx accept() failed (24: Too many open files) while accepting new connection
here’s how to fix this Nginx error.
Here is a workaround to the Drupal imagecache issue with Nginx running as a reverse proxy to Apache.
Update (2011-03-24): In this article. we’re discussing how we leveraged the smart Russian-built Web server Nginx to stop a DDoS attack. We’ve also experimented quite a bit with Varnish, another fine half-Danish half-Norwegian open source software, as a DDoS mitigation tool. It can be made to form the same constellation that we used for Nginx [...]
In this article, we shall outline the steps required to build a private Content Delivery or Distribution Network (CDN) using Varnish Cache, Nginx, BIND, and GeoIP. The goal is to build a CDN using free, readily available software but most importantly spend the least amount of funds possible.
