On May 21, 5:25 pm, Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 18:13 -0700, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > > If one really has to use a software proxy, then also perhaps look at > > dedicated solutions like Pound. It may be the case that nginx serves > > okay as a proxy, but it isn't purpose built for that and so solutions > > like Pound may provide a more flexible solution which is easier to > > configure and manage when load balancing across many machines. > > I often agree with you in general (despite disagreeing on particular > details <wink>). However you really ought to quit making unfounded > generalizations about Nginx. It is, in fact, purpose-built to be a > proxy. It's also far better than Pound (which I also used before > switching to Nginx) as a proxy. It's true it doesn't (currently) have > very sophisticated load-balancing (round-robin only, unless you use a > 3rd party module), but it's almost stupidly simple to configure and > easily outperforms Pound, especially under load.
I stand corrected. I will admit that I am not a nginx, nor even a Pound expert. I would say however that mod_proxy module in Apache is also purpose built for proxying, that doesn't mean it is a good idea to use it. What I was trying to say was that where there are solutions whose only purpose is to do something, also look at them as well as those which may do it as one function of many. This is because the solutions which try to do just the one job do often come with a better feature set for that one task, that depending on what you are doing may make more sense. Yes it may mean a drop in performance for some aspects of the problem being solved, but this may be made up in other ways through the other features it provides. Sorry, I am generalising again of course, but when you really don't know the exact details of what a person is wanting to setup and why, it is hard to do anything else. :-) Graham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" 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/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
