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NGINX Cookbook

You're reading from NGINX Cookbook Over 70 recipes for real-world configuration, deployment, and performance

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786466174

Length 278 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

NGINX

Concepts

Networking

Author (1):

Tim Butler

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Let's Get Started

2. Common PHP Scenarios FREE CHAPTER

3. Common Frameworks

4. All About SSLs

5. Logging

6. Rewrites

7. Reverse Proxy

8. Load Balancing

9. Advanced Features

10. Docker Containers

11. Performance Tuning

12. OpenResty

13. NGINX Plus – The Commercial Offering

Least connected load balancing

While the default load balancing algorithm is round-robin, it doesn't take into consideration either the server load or the response times. With the least connected method, we distribute connections to the upstream server with the least number of active connections.

Getting ready

To test the load balancing, you'll need to be able to run multiple versions of your app, each on different ports.

How to do it...

The upstream block directive looks exactly the same as the round-robin configuration, except we now explicitly tell NGINX to...

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Authors (1)

Tim Butler

Tim Butler

Tim Butler is currently working in the web hosting industry and has nearly 20 years of experience. He currently maintains hyper-converged storage/compute platforms and is an architect of high throughput web logging and monitoring solutions. You can follow him on Twitter using his Twitter handle, @timbutler, where he (infrequently) posts about hosting, virtualization, NGINX, containers, and a few other hobbies.

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