Nginx health checks

[David Pratt]

Hi Alexander. Your post is quite interesting. I would be interested in 
seeing configuration for HAProxy and nginx for your test case. Also 
found this post on the same topic. Are you going  nginx => haproxy => 
mongels. From the following, you are advocating putting haproxy in 
front. Many thanks.

http://www.igvita.com/2008/05/13/load-balancing-qos-with-haproxy/

Regards,
David

Alexander Staubo wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Barry Abrahamson <barry at automattic.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, in my testing, the performance of HAProxy was less than stellar and I
>> couldn't figure out how to get it to spawn multiple process to use multiple
>> CPUs.  Also, I would like to avoid adding another layer if possible.
> 
> That's pretty much the opposite of my experience with HAProxy versus
> Nginx, although my test case may be different from yours. I have
> briefly blogged about this today:
> 
> http://affectioncode.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/comparing-nginx-and-haproxy-for-web-applications/
> 
> Alexander.
> 
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