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Building A Highly Available Nginx Reverse-Proxy Using Heartbeat

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Ajitabh

A cluster in computing is a term used to describe a group of closely linked computers often appearing as a single entity to the outside world. There are various types of clusters—high-availability (HA) clusters, load-balancing clusters, compute clusters or high … Continue reading →

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Building A Highly-Available Web Server Cluster

Posted on February 1, 2009 by Ajitabh

nginx (pronounced as ‘engine x’) is a powerful HTTP Web server/reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 reverse proxy. According to a survey conducted in December 2008 by Netcraft, nginx has grown significantly and has surpassed lighttpd (also known as Lighty). Because of … Continue reading →

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