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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by velodrome on Thursday September 27, 2012 @12:56AM (#4579423)
"One thing that always surprises me is seeing configurations where Nginx is merely a proxy or load balancer into a bunch of Apache instances. Are you nuts? Stop doing that. Just use Nginx and FastCGI -- thank me later."

Problem is - you can't flush the output buffer.

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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by nnq on Thursday September 27, 2012 @02:16AM (#4579591)
Isn't there a known fix for this for like a year or so? (http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2011/01/24/php-nginx-and-o...)
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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by velodrome on Thursday September 27, 2012 @12:38PM (#4581486)
It is only a 1k chunk. This sucks for chat-type applications (<1k per message) and slow apps.

Also, in that example, you can't use gzip. If I use a nginx+apache setup, I can do output flushing and gzip. I hope nginx fixes this issue.

*This affects php/fcgi.

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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by nnq on Friday September 28, 2012 @01:15PM (#4586619)
Nice to know! Thanks for clarifying.
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