Why not Proxy with Nginx ?

[Mike McGrath]

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Luke Macken wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 06:35:57AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > Stuff like this comes up from time to time and the question I always have
> > is: What is it we're wanting to do that we can't currently do with the
> > setup we have now?  We're a group with a lot of turnover and almost
> > everyone knows how to use apache so why is it worth it to us to switch to
> > nginx?
>
> If we are wanting "to serve static files faster", then yes, Nginx would
> do that for us[0].  I use Nginx for all of my personal application
> deployments, and I've been extremely impressed with it's speed and ease
> of configuration.  However, it's WSGI support is a bit questionable, so
> we would only want to use it as for serving static files & reverse
> proxying.  You can also configure it to hit memcached before apache,
> which is pretty neat.
>

That is interesting though, does it just store entire html pages in
memcached?

	-Mike