NGINX Serving WordPress: Recommended Config for Performance
Where The Idea Came From While working on a migration for a client running three high-traffic WordPress sites last month, I got an idea for writing up the NGINX WordPress…
NGINX Load Balancing Methods: Round Robin, Least Connections, IP Hash
The Green Dashboard That Lied A client called us on a Friday afternoon because their e-commerce site had been dropping orders all week. Their NGINX load balancer showed all three…
Nginx Server Optimization: Lessons from a 3AM Production Outage
Our monitoring board looked fine at 11 PM. By 3 AM, we had 5,000 queued connections and a site returning 502 errors to every visitor. That night became our real…