A few days ago, one of our clients presented an interesting problem. They had several editions of an application with each edition being served for a specific client through his own subdomain. There exists a client(subdomain)-edition(document root) mapping in the database. They need to be able to map each client...
The general idea behind using a load balancer is that it allows you to distribute the HTTP traffic across many nodes, i.e. Nginx is conncted to multiple backend servers (application servers ). Nginx handles all incoming requests, distributes them across the backend servers that actually...
When it comes to web server applications, there are two particular names that rise strongly; Apache and Nginx. So, what are the differences between these well-known web servers? and which one to pick? Introducing Apache The Apache HTTP Server is the most popular Linux-based web server. It was first...
One of the main methods of optimization is web caching, which is simply a method to store a copy of the web content to accelerate the serving it to the client. The most famous caching method is setting up a reverse proxy in-front of the web server...
