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NGINX Cookbook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466174
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tim Butler Tim Butler
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

Introduction

While the open source version of NGINX is the one most people are familiar with, Nginx Inc also produces a paid, commercial variant with a number of additional features aimed at enterprise and large tier deployments. With features such as detailed live monitoring, application health checking for load balancers, and dynamic configuration reloading, there are compelling reasons to consider the Plus version.

While some may find the US $2,500 starting point a steep jump over the open source version, these additional features pit it against commercial systems at over ten times the price. Suffice to say, once you get to the point where these features become paramount to your business, the price is well worth it. You'll also be supporting the continual development of NGINX, which most organizations with the Plus version still run.

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