rel=me » mongrel_cluster http://rel.me programming, objective-c, cocoa, iphone, c Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:26:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 nginx http://rel.me/2007/09/03/nginx/ http://rel.me/2007/09/03/nginx/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:56:00 +0000 admin /2007/09/03/nginx 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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