Preface
You will learn how to notes problems before your boss calls you about some pages not loading. You will learn how to find those problems using logs and your usual Linux toolbox. You will also learn how to minimize the probability of problems happening again.
Nginx started as a web accelerator reverse proxy inside one of the big Russian web companies of the early 2000s. The main web server software was Apache 1.3, and it started to show architectural problems serving thousands of relatively slow clients using the old process-based model. Smart web engineers were already building two-tier systems of light frontends based on the mod_proxy Apache module or even used the squid caching proxy in the reverse proxy mode.
The early predecessor of Nginx ...
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