Nginx Scaling Web Applications with Nginx Part 1 & 2

New Nginx.com Blog article at Scaling Web Applications with NGINX - Part I: Load Balancing - NGINX

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I forgot that I also use Datadog services for server monitoring for my Backupsy VPS backup servers

 

fyi, the article is also referring to the Nginx documentation you can read at

• Module ngx_http_upstream_module
• Using nginx as HTTP load balancer
• Module ngx_http_proxy_module
• Load Balancing with NGINX and NGINX Plus | NGINX
  
• Load Balancing with NGINX and NGINX Plus, Part 2 | NGINX

Notes

• some of the info is outdated, as shared memory zone in upstreams and sticky session persistence support is no longer a Nginx Plus exclusive option as it was added in open source version of Nginx 1.9.0+. For stream based upstream hash key see community.centminmod.com/posts/13159/ and Module ngx_stream_upstream_module
• also while health checks for upstreams is Nginx Plus only option, Centmin Mod includes 3rd party nginx module for similar feature from yaoweibin/nginx_upstream_check_module · GitHub via
  Code:

  --add-module=../nginx_upstream_check_module-0.3.0

 

Part 2 is out Scaling Web Applications with NGINX – Part II: Caching and Monitoring - NGINX