Tag: nginx

MyLocalDev Part 4: Differentiating Your Local Environment

I’m not too proud to admit that there have been numerous occasions where I’m convinced a server is lying to me only to discover that I was looking at production instead of my local development environment. I’m also not too proud to admit that it’s happened the other way too, where I’ve made edits to […]

Posted: September 28, 2017

MyLocalDev Part 2: MEMP and Valet

Every local development environment is based on a stack of some sort. My goal here was to remove as many barriers to development as possible, and for me that aligns with installing everything locally. Local for me equates to OS X, so everything in this series is based on that setup. Install Homebrew Homebrew on […]

Posted: September 28, 2017

WordPress.com Serves 70,000 req/sec and over 15 Gbit/sec

High Scalability – High Scalability – WordPress.com Serves 70,000 req/sec and over 15 Gbit/sec of Traffic using NGINX. I’ve always wondered what kind of numbers WordPress.com was pulling. Now we know. Amazing. Nginx in my opinion is one of the best things to happen to Web design in the past decade. Stunning piece of software.

Posted: October 16, 2012

10 Million hits a day with WordPress using a $15 server

10 Million hits a day with WordPress using a $15 server | Ewan's Blog on IT and stuff like it. It doesn’t get much more straightforward than this. I enjoy reading articles about well optimized WordPress sites. WordPress, like any other Web app will suffer bottlenecks if not handled properly. This article helps to show […]

Posted: March 30, 2012

Apache releases first major new version of popular Web server in six years

Apache releases first major new version of popular Web server in six years | ZDNet. I didn’t expect to see this headline. I have a special place in my heart for Apache, I think it was one of the biggest contributors to the Web we know and love today. While I’ve personally switched my servers […]

Posted: February 23, 2012

NGINX takes 2nd place in Web Servers from Microsoft IIS

NGINX takes 2nd place in Web Servers from Microsoft IIS | ZDNet. NGINX is seriously blowing up, and so it deserves. I moved all of our stuff to an NGINX-powered server about six months ago and haven’t looked back. At all. It’s seriously a stellar piece of software. To hear that NGINX is now second […]

Posted: January 09, 2012

9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM

tumbledry.org: 9 million hits/day with 120 megs RAM. Articles like these are great perspective. Many times we read articles about servers with 400GB RAM, seven petabytes of storage, and eleven quad-core processors, but I’m most interested in maximizing performance from just about anything. Getting 9 million hits per day on a machine with 120 megs […]

Posted: August 31, 2011

nginx Now an Established Company

This is great news! nginx is an alternative to Apache with a supreme focus on performance and scalability. I converted my production server to use nginx about 5 months ago and loved how it works. Config files that make sense and wicked performance benefits top my list of Reasons to Love nginx and it’s definitely […]

Posted: July 18, 2011