how nginx handle connection with backend web server?

[Joshua Zhu]

Hello,

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Xuepeng Li<xuepeng.li at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> if it's is 1:1 module and nginx establishes  HTTP 1.0 only to apache
> server,  every time enginx receive a request, it has to proxy the request to
> apache server, what is the advantange make enginx as reverse proxy  other
> than make direct connection between browser and apache?
>
>

Possible advantages:
i) You can use nginx as a load balancer, directing requests to
multiple backends, to increase your web server's whole capacity.
ii) Use nginx as front end, you can even fight small DDOS attacks!

Regards,

-- 
Joshua Zhu