Re: [LUG] Nginx vs. Apache

[Matt Stevenson <mrmstevenson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tom truly appreciate the feedback would expect to see some improvement in mySQL performance once multi-host is configured. In the time I wrote this email I just fired up a docker nginx and mysql container for phase 1 of performance tests. 

On Monday, May 11, 2015, Tom <madtom1999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/05/15 19:45, Matt Stevenson wrote:
>>
>> Am also thinking about spreading mySQL load over hosts with
>> master-master setup if this article can be trusted seems to make sense
>> as rsync will probably not handle locked tables with site mirroring. So
>> maybe application LB is in order.
>> http://brendanschwartz.com/post/12702901390/mysql-master-master-replication
>> Is it true nginx is simpler to configure LB ?
>>
>> On Monday, May 11, 2015, Matt Stevenson <mrmstevenson@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:mrmstevenson@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> Â> Thank you Joseph good comments duly noted.
>> Â> Having seen our Centos servers PHP in top running on fire nearly all
>> day as it hosts 50 + sites.
>> Â> Iâm really curious about running a docker container with NGINX as a
>> proxy LB and giving NGINX a trial on a cloud server. Just hope I donât
>> screw anything up in the process and maybe create some trial sites
>> first. ;-)
>> Â>
>> Â> On Monday, May 11, 2015, Joseph Bennie <jay@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:jay@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> Â>>
>> Â>>> On 11 May 2015, at 18:03, Matt Stevenson <mrmstevenson@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:mrmstevenson@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> Â>>>
>> Â>>> Hey there
>> Â>>>
>> Â>>> Anyone out there managing cloud web servers got an opinion of Nginx
>> vs. Apache.
>> Â>>> Performance apparently differs with PHP. We are interested in Nginx
>> as a LB to our cloud servers.
>> Â>>> Is this easy and good practise.
>> Â>>>
>> Â>>
>> Â>> I havenât used nginx, but most alternatives are better than stock
>> apache setup when working with php.
>> Â>>
>> Â>> The trade off is if you donât need thread safe (most people donât ,
>> but think they do) then swapping to apache mpm or nginx will give better
>> through put and possibly better memory usage. but its no panacea,
>> profile (just use âtop' initially) your php memory usage, I recently saw
>> a centos 6 stock apache setup falling apart with only 12 paralel active
>> php sessions running.
>> Â>>
>> Â>>> Regards
>> Â>>>
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> Mysql has features built in for backup and multimachine hosting which should be used before rsync is considered.
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