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Is this a sensible way to scale Nginx for static content serving?

I need to set up some VPSs for serving static content (many small files). I plan on using Nginx for this, and would like to set it up so that we are able to scale out relatively easily. The ...
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PHP-FPM as a dedicated application server?

Just wondering in terms of scalability .. do you reckon PHP-FPM should run on a standalone server or works as well if you run it with NginX on the same server?
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Nginx Unix vs TCP sockets

I had a scalability problem on a Django website, basically with 4000 online users the website was not accessible, I run some load test: ab -n 1000 -c 100 http://www.domain.com/ The performance was ...
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Ruby concurrency + Scaling with Rails

We have a social networking site runs with, Stunnel->Haproxy->Nginx->Unicorn We have 20 unicorn processes running in a 24 core machine. When i run the tests with 200 requests and 100 concurrent ...
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Load testing nginx inside AWS

I'm trying to load test nginx running on AWS. I need to try to optimise it to handle 1Gbps of inbound traffic. Currently I've got it to peak at 85Mbit/s by running nginx on an m1.large with 4 other ...
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How to achieve 500K requests per second on my webserver? [closed]

I recently gifted myself a new dedicated server and I am trying to squeeze maximum performance out of it, for fun and learning. I am trying to achieve maximum possible requests per second this server ...
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Ubuntu scalable nginx mongodb mongdb memcached server configuration

I have been building a PHP web application using the following techniques in the past 2 months: PHP 5.3.4 MongoDB MySql I just got my dedicated server running Ubuntu 10.4 LTS x64 with the ...
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nginx / node.js / postgres, scalability problems?

I have an app running with: one instance of nginx as the frontend (serving static file) a cluster of node.js application for the backend (using cluster and expressjs modules) one instance of ...
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Nginx vs Apache & mod_php for PHP and php+fpm vs fastcgi

It seems to be universally recommended to run Nginx as a reverse proxy in front of Apache but there seems to be a devision in opinion on whether Apache + mod_php or Nginx are better for serving ...