I switched from apache + mod_proxy_balancer to nginx, which on my lame VPS is saving me around 14 precious MB of memory. There are so many reasons to use nginx. Ezra recommends the monit + nginx + mongrel_cluster stack, and my friend/co-worker has a great conf to start with. It took me about 5 minutes to setup, even with multiple hosts.
My nginx.conf and init script.
Nginx is hyper optimized…
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./ngx_http_upstream.c: if (h->value.len == 2) {
./ngx_http_upstream.c: if (c0 == 'n' && c1 == 'o') {
./ngx_http_upstream.c: } else if (h->value.len == 3) {
./ngx_http_upstream.c: if (c0 == 'y' && c1 == 'e' && c2 == 's') {
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