You need to make a pool for fastcgi, see the loadbalance example http://wiki.nginx.org/LoadBalanceExample This solution is the same for any OS suffering from upstream timeouts. With a pool of 4 you can easily handle 1000 requests/sec, and yes even with nginx win32. Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,226613,226627#msg-226627