For anyone reading this thread, I should mention that nginx does not support websockets. That caused me some headaches.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyone here insist that node is super fast. > > I don't think many node users say that. Node is efficient and can serve a > lot of simultaneous connections. A JS interpreter cannot compete with > efficient C++ code for hauling data. > > > Is it faster than node.js > > Nginx and node are each fast for their own purposes. Nginx is fast at > serving static data and node is fast at serving dynamic pages/data and > low-level connection-handling. They go well together with nginx proxying > in front of node. This is a common configuration. > > Both are asynchronous-based with event loops. Nginx is simpler to use for > simple serving than node is. IMHO, nginx should replace apache web server. > > However, I highly recommend letting some other service like S3 or > cloudfront serve video files. It will save you headaches dealing with all > that data. > > > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
