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How to migrate Cisco ACE configuration to NGINX, with detailed examples
How to pick out a standard x86 server
How to install and configure Linux
Why you should go with a software load balancer instead of hardware
In 2012 Cisco announced end-of-life (EOL) for its Application Control Engine (ACE) line of hardware load balancers. The load balancer market had already started to moving to software and Cisco realized they weren’t going to be able to keep up. Customers who purchased ACE are now left scrambling to find a replacement.
The most cost‑effective and future‑proof alternative to Cisco ACE is NGINX. In this ebook, we describe in detail how to replace Cisco ACE with NGINX and off-the-shelf hardware.
