High traffic on Nginx-Webservers !!

shahzaib shahzaib shahzaib.cb at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 10:24:22 UTC 2014


>>If your content is cachable and you don't require varnish's
cache-invalidation features, you could use nginx's proxy-caching
features.

Well, i want to cache application means, dynamic php pages. Will that be OK
with nginx ?


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:21 PM, shahzaib shahzaib <shahzaib.cb at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for quick response, well our website is related to video streaming
> just like youtube. Could you provide me some guide to learn varnish for
> start-up ?
>
> Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.
>
> Shahzaib
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de>wrote:
>
>> Am Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:39:53 +0500
>> schrieb shahzaib shahzaib <shahzaib.cb at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> >        We're using the cluster of 5 webservers using nginx (reverse
>> > proxy)
>> > + apache to handle php requests. Our web-servers are constantly high
>> > with load-avg of 2.0~3.0. I have seen people using varnish between
>> > nginx + apache. Could someone guide me if installing Nginx > Varnish
>> > > apache will reduce the server load ?
>> >
>> > It's urgent.
>>
>>
>> If the content is cachable, it will reduce load.
>>
>> But deploying varnish requires some experience and knowledge of the
>> application.
>> Unless the application is e.g. plain-vanilla wordpress, there are no
>> out-of-the-box varnish tutorials to help you in your specific situation.
>>
>> If your content is cachable and you don't require varnish's
>> cache-invalidation features, you could use nginx's proxy-caching
>> features.
>>
>> See the wiki/handbook.
>>
>>
>>
>
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