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http://www.howtoforge.com/reduce-apache-load-with-nginx-rhel5.2
howtoforge.com This how-to describes how to install and configure Nginx to accelerate an Apache server based on RHEL 5.2.

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http://www.railsjitsu.com/installing-and-configuring-nginx-and-mongrel-for-rails
railsjitsu.com Another howto about nginx and rails.

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http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/08/23/nginx-my-new-favorite-front-end-for-mongrel-cluster
brainspl.at Nginx is my new favorite front end for my rails apps and has been very stable during my testing and abuse of it. It is actually faster then lighty for static files and the proxy and rewrite modules are way more complete. In my benchmarks on my macbookpro, nginx serves static files at 13+k requests/sec. And it performs better for proxied requests then pen, pound or apache2.2. It also handles ssl...

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http://glauche.de/2008/01/12/thin-nginx-with-rails/
glauche.de Recently i’ve been playing around with xen and different hosting solutions, and i was wondering about lightweight, yet performant replacements for the usual apache + mod_fcgi + dispatcher stack. I did toy around with nginx before, together with mongrel with quite good success.

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http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/1/16/ubuntu-gutsy-nginx-vhosts-rails-and-mongrels
slicehost.com There are several ways of serving a Ruby on Rails application, one of which is to use Nginx to proxy requests to mongrels. This little howto should also work with 'thin'.

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