nginx serving static files - caching?

[Robert La Ferla]

On 11/12/2010 4:14 AM, revirii wrote:
> Let's say we have 16 GB Ram available for the server. We could simply
> avoid using some caching mechanism and read the files from disk. For my
> scenario: is it possible to establish some reasonable caching? No
> decision regarding the to-be-used technology is made so far. An
> associate favours varnish (with some webserver as backend) and some
> least recently used strategy, i'd give nginx+memcached a try. Any
> recommendations?

I'd consider using a RAIDed SSD for storage to achieve the highest 
performance.

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Robert La Ferla
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OMS SafeHarbor

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