William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
Jeff Pang wrote:
Hello,
I have a modperl application on a host which is running with heavy load.
I have the plan to put a reverse proxy before it.
There are two well known reverse proxy software, one is Squid, another
is nginx.
Which one is better for modperl application? or is there any others
which are better than these two?
And there is httpd which you are already running, and you can run a very
low cost, separate instance with very minimal modules loaded. With the
mod_proxy_balancer, you can shuffle off some of the traffic to a second,
third machine for good measure.
Is either better? Google both for problems to determine how many people
are irritated with either.
I believe that there are a number of people that use lighttpd on the
frontend too, so you can add it to the list. All of them have their
pluses and minuses, and all of them will help relieve the load on your
server.
Adam
