Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx

Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by relix on Thursday September 27, 2012 @04:54AM (#4579918)

Googling is about the worst way to set up an nginx server configuration! The only tutorials and helpful snippets out there are riddled with bad practices.

Here's a list of "pitfalls" that are commonly used and really shouldn't: http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls

I notice that you're using a lot of "if" statements. I hope you've read this http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil. I understand that in this case it might be harder to find alternatives for the if-statement, haven't looked into what you need really deeply.

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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by jacques_chester on Thursday September 27, 2012 @08:11PM (#4583620)

It's been a few years since I cobbled this one together and I recall reading the IfIsEvil web page. I vaguely recall that at the time there was some limitation on how try_files worked that made it necessary to use ifs, but for the life of me I don't remember what.

The rtCamp configuration I linked to earlier makes use of try_files and says he has support for both supercache and domain mapping, so I think I'll migrate to that.

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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by ZoFreX on Thursday September 27, 2012 @07:57AM (#4580253)

+1 to avoiding if. Tryfiles is amazing!

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