nginx for fun and performance

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Claims that nginx’s event-driven reactor model lets one server handle thousands of clients, then shows how it’s used for SSL termination (Mozilla config, DH param 2048, PFS, 50 MB session cache ≈200k sessions, HSTS 6 months, OCSP stapling), load balancing and proxying (proxy_pass, round_robin, least_conn, ip_hash, weights), static hosting with client-side far-future caching and filename hashing, and PHP via php-fpm. Benchmarks on two DigitalOcean 512MB Ubuntu droplets with ab (vanilla installs) run 25,000 requests in 7.7s (~3,323 req/s) for static files; nginx sustains high concurrency while Apache fails around 1,000 concurrent requests.

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1. 0:00Introduction to nginx
2. 9:49Key features of nginx
3. 17:12SSL termination setup
4. 21:23Load balancing and proxying
5. 26:41Performance benchmarks
6. 35:25Benchmarking takeaways
7. 36:08Q&A session

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