On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Yohan Yudanara <yohan.yudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've read somewhere on the internet about deploying application on nginx as > front end server for tomcat. > They say that we better use nginx to serve static content and tomcat for > dynamic content. > Is it true that having nginx/apache as front end server before tomcat will > improve performance?
There's no single answer to this question. If anything, the default answer is that the opposite is true. Together, your architecture is more complex, you have more layers in between, you need more more resources to run them etc. However, if you are serving a lot of static content (i.e. your site resembles youtube, flicker, itunes or some other site serving media files - not necessarily in volume but in principle), you could cluster and scale the static content part separately from your application server if you used a web server front-end. If it's just the static resources part of your website style, there's no reason to offload them. Typically, you'd get much better bang for the buck by offloading your javascript libraries to a publicly available CDN. But first of all, you should profile your site and see what type of load eats up your bandwidth before making any firm decisions. The answers in the linked answer sound reasonable. Kalle --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
