Beginning with nginx

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 01:25:02PM +0530, ram wrote:

>Hi,
>
>  I have been trying to look for a good proxy server in order to prepare
>to scale my POP/IMAP services
>
>For 40k pop users with around 700 simultaneous connections we are having
>a single cyrus server, and that is not able to handle any more load
>
>Users are increasing and I am thinking of putting up another POP server
>to share the load and have a nginx server in front. 
>
>I have a basic question 
>Can I use nginx and one of the real servers on the same machine for
>pop/IMAP. 

Yes, as long as bind them to non-conflicting ips/ports.

Maxim Dounin