Nginx HTTP Server - Third Edition

Chapter 7. From Apache to Nginx

Every experienced system administrator will tell you the same story. When your web infrastructure works fine and client requests are served at a good speed, the last thing you want to do is modify the architecture that you have spent days, weeks, or even months putting together. In reality, as your website grows more popular, problems pertaining to scalability tend to occur inevitably (and these problems are not as well documented as the mainstream ones), regardless of the effort that you originally put into your initial server configuration. Eventually, you have to start looking for solutions. In that context, there are multiple reasons why you would want to completely adopt Nginx at the expense of your previous ...