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Originally Posted by Nurgle
Ray, do your or your team work with nginx setup etcs?
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Yes. Apache + nginx setups are often good candidates for tuning.
More than once, we've improved an Apache + nginx setup by running some monitoring to get baseline performance and load numbers. This is the "before" picture which tells what the server was like before tuning. Then we tune the OS and Apache settings. Finally, we ditch the unecesary extra layer (nginx) and log the "after" numbers. While nginx may sometimes be appropriate, most often it's the wrong solution to a poorly understood problem and a better Apache configuration performs better with far less hassle and wasted resources from running two web servers instead of one.
Occasionally, nginx actually turns out to be useful in the role of proxy, though squid, being designed as a proxy, tends to be better suited to that role.
If you happen to be religious about nginx, we can tune based on keeping it. Some people just "like" nginx, regardless of performance and bugs.