PHP/FCGI balancing

[Igor Clark]

On 17 Jun 2008, at 17:57, Maxim Dounin wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:36:04PM +0100, Igor Clark wrote:
>
>> Hi there, two related questions, one quickie, one more involved :-)
>>
>> 1) Is it possible to specify weighting between upstream FastCGI  
>> servers? If not in nginx config, then using some clever scheme?
>
> http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpUpstreamModule#server

Superb.

>> 2) Your thoughts on the following situation would be welcome!
>> […]
>> What do you think would be most sensible?
>
> It's unlikely that nginx box will be bottleneck unless you have IO- 
> bound workload (i.e. many static files).  Looks like another PHP  
> server whould be better choice.


And with the weighting on the PHP that makes even more sense.

Thanks very much, Maxim.

Best wishes
Igor

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