PHP is the programming language used for many popular frameworks and content management systems (CMSes). We have specific articles on the two most popular PHP-based CMSes, WordPress and Drupal. Introduction – When to Use Multiple Servers Part 1 of this blog post covers maximizing PHP web server performance on a single‑server implementation, where the web server and…
Continue reading ›8 Tips for Drupal 8 Performance
Editor – For more on maximizing Drupal 8 performance with NGINX, watch our webinar on demand, Maximizing Drupal 8 Performance with NGINX. You can read a transcript of the webinar in two parts: Architecture and Configuration and Caching and Load Balancing. [blockquote author="David Wheeler"]All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection. Drupal is a…
Continue reading ›NGINX Plus and Microsoft Azure Load Balancers
[ngx_snippet name='table-style-blog'] [Editor – This post has been updated to refer to the NGINX Plus API, which replaces and deprecates the separate dynamic configuration module mentioned in the original version of the post.] Customers using Microsoft Azure have three options for load balancing: NGINX Plus, the Azure load balancing services, or NGINX Plus in conjunction with the Azure…
Continue reading ›Converting Apache Rewrite Rules to NGINX Rewrite Rules
Last week we published a blog about Creating NGINX Rewrite Rules. In this complementary blog, we'll discuss how to convert Apache HTTP server rewrite rules to NGINX Plus syntax (the conversions are the same for the open source NGINX software). You need to convert to NGINX rewrite rules when you place NGINX Plus in front of your…
Continue reading ›Reverse Proxy Using NGINX Plus
NGINX has gained justifiable fame as a very high‑performance web server. I think many people realize that NGINX can also be used as a reverse proxy, but they might not be aware of just what a powerful reverse proxy it is. What Is a Reverse Proxy? Let's start by taking a step back and asking,…
Continue reading ›Load Balancing with NGINX and NGINX Plus, Part 2
In Load Balancing with NGINX and NGINX Plus, Part 1, we set up a simple HTTP proxy to load balance traffic across several web servers. In this article, we'll look at additional features, some of them available in NGINX Plus: performance optimization with keepalives, health checks, session persistence, redirects, and content rewriting. For details of the load‑balancing features in NGINX and…
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