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Originally Posted by borked
What is the benefit of nginx in front of apache? Ok if it's as a load balancer but i see no benefit at all to pass requests from one web server to another on the same machine.
Serve thumbs from nginx, yes maybe.
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You setup nginx to respond to js, css, flv, jpg, gif, mp4, etc and pass through everything else to apache. Same sort of idea as using nginx to host just the thumbs but this also serves the pieces of your layout like the css and images from that via nginx. Give's you the best of both worlds...