Why are you proxying things twice mike ? From what I can see your setup is web -> nginx1 -> nginx2 -> php Why don't you just do web -> nginx - > php Cheers Dave On 20/04/2008, at 8:05 PM, mike wrote: > These machines are on their own VLAN (just HTTP and MySQL traffic) > > It's all gigabit. However, I get some timeouts still.