2. What is Nginx?
Nginx (pronounced engine-x) is a free, opensource, high-performance HTTP server and
reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy
server.
3. What can it do?
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Handle over 10k simultaneous connections
Low memory footprint
Great for serving static files (assets)
SSL Termination
Caching proxy
Fault tolerance
Bandwidth throttling
Load balancing
… much more
4. What is missing?
Serving dynamic ruby content
A simple interface for
developing web
applications in Ruby
5. This van is Racking…
Do come on knocking!
Unicorn is an HTTP server
for Rack applications
9. References
● Introducing Rack
● Rails On Rack + RailsCast on Rack
Middleware
● I like Unicorn because it’s Unix
● Nginx Configuration Example
● Nginx Wiki
● Nginx NewRelic Plugin
● Nginx Plus