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Nginx HTTP Server, Third Edition
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Nginx HTTP Server, Third Edition

by Nedelcu
November 2015
Beginner to intermediate
318 pages
6h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using Nginx as a TCP load balancer

Until recently, the open source version of Nginx would only allow load balancing in the context of HTTP requests. In the meantime, the commercial subscription NGINX+ took the concept one step further: using Nginx as a TCP load balancer. This would pave the way to much broader possibilities: you could then set up Nginx to distribute load across any form of networked servers—database servers, e-mail servers— literally everything that communicates via TCP. In May 2015, the authors decided that TCP load balancing should be part of the open-source version; as of Nginx 1.9.0 the Stream module is included in the source code readily available on Nginx.org.

The Stream module

The way TCP load balancing works in Nginx is ...

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