Chapter 8. Introducing Load Balancing and Optimization
As much as Nginx will help your servers hold the load, there are always limits to what a single machine can process: an aging hard drive or limited bandwidth will eventually induce a bottleneck, resulting in longer request serving times, which in turn leads to disappointment for your visitors.
As your websites grow more popular and your single machine begins to suffer, you will be tempted to simply get a bigger and more expensive server. But this will not be a cost-efficient approach in the long run. Moreover, the more strain a server is exposed to, the more likely it is to suffer from hardware failure.
In this chapter, we will investigate two concepts, the first of which is load balancing: ...
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