August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
8h 53m
English
In addition to limiting bandwidth to ensure fair and equitable access among all users, NGINX is able to place limits on the number of connections. Back in Chapter 7, Reverse Proxy, we covered how to rate limit connections. While they may sound the same, connection limiting is slightly different and has different use cases. Connection limiting is used where you have long running tasks, such as downloads. The previous recipe covering bandwidth limiting only applies per connection, not per IP. We can however combine the two to ensure that each IP address can't exceed the specified bandwidth limit.
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