Posts tagged "Nginx"

For a recent project, we decided to use the nginx webserver as our primary web server. It is easy, relatively light-weight, and it seemed to suit our needs quite well. The project had a lot of static content - HTML, JavaScript, CSS and image files. Of course, we wanted to achieve a high performance with as many concurrent requests being served as possible. This is what we did.

Setup

First of all, it is worth to mention the setup. Our staging environment had just one virtual machine with nginx running. This was an Azure Standard A2 VM with 2 cores and 3,5 GB of RAM. That’s not a lot, and in a real production environment you would definitely go for more web servers, with some kind of load balancing. But the goal of this experiment was mainly to experiment with the many options nginx provides for tweaking. The virtual was located in the same region as where the project will be deployed. Also, we used a similarly sized machine for putting load on our web server. This machine was located in that same region as well.

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