Tag Archives: nginx

Watching nginx upstreams with collectd

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Jeff Waugh

Already happy with nginx in front of Apache for a number of sites, I decided it was time to start testing nginx/fastcgi on my personal server (the serial crash test dummy of my web operations). The only problem: I have … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged collectd, FastCGI, nginx, PHP | 14 Comments

Replacing Apache with nginx for static file serving

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Jeff Waugh

This chart represents the regular activity of an Apache server from Monday to Thursday — a massive spike of non-idle processes starting around lunch time — and then an eerily quiet Friday. No, it wasn’t a public holiday, it’s just … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Apache, ncache, nginx, performance, web development, web servers | 24 Comments