Re:Can Nginx servers scale to the level of Google
by detaro on Friday January 27, 2023 @10:01PM
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Because their own can solve their problems better. Note that the Cloudflare reference is "used to" - just because you can use nginx at scale doesn't mean it's the best, and all such deployments aren't running stock nginx, and not nginx alone.
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Re:Can Nginx servers scale to the level of Google
by donboscow on Friday January 27, 2023 @10:03PM
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Got it. Thanks. Which servers are best suited to handle such high levels of load, and are available for free and open usage like Nginx or Apache is? I read that Apache has even more problems than Nginx.
Re:Can Nginx servers scale to the level of Google
by bosch_mind on Friday January 27, 2023 @11:40PM
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Nothing wrong with NGINX. Read Cloudflare post on Pingora.
Different needs for different usecases where NGINX is more of an OOTB situation. NGINX is great. I see Caddy mentioned quite a bit, believe it’s written in Go where NGINX is written in C. Cloudflare wrote Pingora in Rust IIRC and I want to say they are releasing an open source flavor
Re:Can Nginx servers scale to the level of Google
by donboscow on Saturday January 28, 2023 @12:24AM
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Hmm I read the post. Cloudfare handles almost 1 trillion requests per day, Google does that per year. However, the request types are different, Cloudfare handles a variety of requests like caching and forwarding, while Google requests are about serving complete web pages. May be for the webserver purpose like Google Nginx may suffice?
Re:Can Nginx servers scale to the level of Google
by ngetchell on Saturday January 28, 2023 @09:09AM
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I'm sorry but those numbers can't be right. Google Analytics is embedded in enough sites to hit a trillion hits a day.
Re:Can Nginx servers scale to the level of Google
by bosch_mind on Saturday January 28, 2023 @04:44PM
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Cloudflare serves web pages bro because they proxy the bytes between servers from origin to eyeball