> I can probably dump a lot of apache config. I still need SSL on both > servers even though only nginx faces the user?
Perhaps you need Apache for certain pages otherwise this is simply a quick fix which is fair enough, we always like those at times but it sounds to me like you could have gained more by simply switching Apache for nginx or tuning your max. Running both is actually wasting a little memory though you may have gained over just Apache. How web proxies with optional caches usually work such as OpenBSDs relayd is to keep track of requests perhaps using higher layer info and share the load among multiple web servers, perhaps adding headers to keep everything functional. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________
