Five ways to optimize your Nginx server

Nginx is an open-source HTTP(web) server and reverse proxy, and an IMAP/POP3 proxy server (email server). It was developed to tackle the C10K problem that web servers in use at the time, which was largely Apache, were facing. C10K is simply a numeronym that stands for concurrently handling 10000 connections. Nginx was designed with the drawbacks of Apache in mind.

Although Nginx is by default, fast and nimble, it can be fine-tuned to perform at its peak, by modifying the following parameters:

1. Worker Processes

Unlike Apache, Nginx does NOT create a new process for every connection that hits it. It instead has a predefined (set by an admin) number

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