Web Servers

In a recent article, I covered how to tune the NGINX webserver for a simple static HTML page. In this article, we are going to once again explore those performance-tuning concepts and walk through some basic tuning options for HAProxy. What is HAProxy HAProxy is a software load balancer commonly used to distribute TCP-based traffic to multiple backend systems. It ...

Spawning services across multiple Docker engines is a very cool thing, but those services need to connect each other and be found by public-facing nodes in order to be routed to users. A way to achieve that is to use NGINX as a reverse proxy by defining one or more public-facing nodes. These nodes are going to have NGINX configured ...

SSL is CPU Intensive If you haven’t already enabled SSL session caching, do that NOW. But what if you have many unique requests and your load balancer is maxing out it’s CPU? That was the case with WakaTime’s load balancer, because as you use the WakaTime plugins you are constantly making requests to our api saying you’re still working on ...

Sometimes you find yourself in a weird predicament. A third party application that you’ve slapped nginx in front of insists on using internal IP addresses or ports despite your reverse proxy passing all the correct headers and other pieces required. Or maybe you’ve found yourself in the situation I found myself in last week where you have a third party ...

Course Overview The Apache HTTP Server, colloquially called Apache, is the world’s most used web server software. Originally based on the NCSA HTTPd server, development of Apache began in early 1995 after work on the NCSA code stalled. Apache played a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web, quickly overtaking NCSA HTTPd as the dominant HTTP ...

This article is part of our Academy Course titled Apache HTTP Server Tutorial. In this course, we provide a compilation of Apache HTTP Server tutorials that will help you get started with this web server. We cover a wide range of topics, from installing the server and performing a basic configuration, to configuring Virtual Hosts and SSL support. With our ...

This article is part of our Academy Course titled Apache HTTP Server Tutorial. In this course, we provide a compilation of Apache HTTP Server tutorials that will help you get started with this web server. We cover a wide range of topics, from installing the server and performing a basic configuration, to configuring Virtual Hosts and SSL support. With our ...

This article is part of our Academy Course titled Apache HTTP Server Tutorial. In this course, we provide a compilation of Apache HTTP Server tutorials that will help you get started with this web server. We cover a wide range of topics, from installing the server and performing a basic configuration, to configuring Virtual Hosts and SSL support. With our ...

This article is part of our Academy Course titled Apache HTTP Server Tutorial. In this course, we provide a compilation of Apache HTTP Server tutorials that will help you get started with this web server. We cover a wide range of topics, from installing the server and performing a basic configuration, to configuring Virtual Hosts and SSL support. With our ...