Re: [LUG] Nginx vs. Apache

[Matt Stevenson <mrmstevenson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you paying for Varnish as they are not listing prices on the website?

On Monday, May 11, 2015, Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've mostly avoided database multi master because it is hard to do well if the applications weren't designed that way. Where application was in-house with read mostly I used read-only replicas once to offload some read workload, but I think usually this is a mistake too.
> NGINX question is interesting. I've only used Squid as a reverse proxy +Â
> Mload balancer in anger for any extended period, it's ugly and old but it works.
> I did a reverse proxy recently which had to potentially scale (very weird requirements). I looked at options and decided the performance edge of NGINX was very modest over Apache MPM, and opted for Apache out of familiarity.
> In most cases, and I assume Cpanel is similar, TLS termination dominates the workload of the load balancer, since most of them are using OpenSSL the performance ends up being limited by CPU for TLS. We have hardware TLS termination on one project which is fun, but it isn't yet loaded to the point that it matters performance-wise. Although crypto offloading has mitigated several issues in OpenSSL ;)
> Whenever I tested Varnish was fastest, but who want solutions without TLS these days?
>
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