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2007

mod_proxy_balancer gets a thumbs up. Chris Miles explains mod_proxy_balance’s hot spare feature. nginx doesn’t appear to support this, unless I’ve missed something in the documentation.

# 20th July 2007, 5:44 pm / nginx, apache, chris-miles, modproxybalance

Just what web server should be sitting in front of my Rails application? Includes some interesting notes about Varnish, PHK’s high performance, highly configurable front-end caching server (essentially a much more modern version of Squid).

# 17th July 2007, 1:29 pm / varnish, phk, joyent, rails, squid, nginx, jason-hoffman

Emiller’s Balls-Out Guide to Nginx Module Development. Extremely detailed guide to extending the nginx Web server using C.

# 29th May 2007, 7:38 pm / nginx

oxfordgeeks.net

Nat and I had a bit of a mini-hackday this bank holiday Monday. Nat’s been doing a great job summoning local geeks out of the woodwork with Oxford Geek Nights event, but it’s still pretty hard to find other interesting events in the Oxfordshire area. It’s not that there aren’t any, it’s just that the geek community in Oxford is currently pretty fragmented.

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1:20 am / 29th May 2007 / django, flickr, natalie-downe, nginx, oxford, oxford-geek-nights, oxfordgeeks, planetvenus, python, upcoming

Quick Django Benching. Django under Apache/mod_python outperforms nginx/FastCGI and LightTPD/FastCGI once you ramp up the concurrency levels. My setup for this site (Apache/mod_python behind an nginx proxy, with nginx handling static files) should give the best of both worlds.

# 17th February 2007, 4:56 pm / apache, modpython, django, nginx, lighttpd, fastcgi, deployment

Content delivery system design mistakes. Collection of tips for optimising Web server performance. Mentions lighttpd/nginx, Keep-Alive, expires headers, noatime and more.

# 15th February 2007, 11 am / http, performance, lighttpd, nginx

Nginx vs. Lighttpd for a small VPS. My VPS is still running nginx with no problems at all.

# 10th January 2007, 11:31 am / nginx, vps, lighttpd, hosting

2006

OpenID screencast

OpenID’s biggest problem is its learning curve. Using it as actually really simple, but if you’re not technical the amount of stuff you have to know before you can understand it is enormous. If you are technical, it just doesn’t seem like it should work—there are a bunch of questions that come up every time OpenID is discussed anywhere (“but surely there’s nothing to stop someone else from spoofing your ID”) which OpenID has answers for, but which are easily misunderstood.

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9:29 pm / 22nd December 2006 / advocacy, howto, nginx, openid, screencast

Nginx English wiki. I’m back up and running after the digg meltdown, currently using CherryPy load-balanced behind Nginx.

# 20th December 2006, 12:37 am / nginx, cherrypy

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