'nginx' Tag

• Identifying main traffic sources with netstat and awk (one-liner explained)

  March 27, 2011

  This is just a short guide on how to find the main offenders in case of web server hammering. Sample of eventual output: netstat -natp | grep :80 | awk ‘{print $5}’ | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail      25 195.150.23.130      25 67.222.164.140   [...]

  posted in one-liners by tom

• Ruby on Rails served by unicorn with nginx for static files and reverse proxy on Ubuntu – detailed guide.

  March 10, 2011

  Ruby, the ever-so-popular scripting language and Rails – one of the leading web application frameworks are prone to serious performance issues if not served efficiently. Enter unicorn, a high performance replacement for mongrels and such. And of course, my goto tool for all things http: nginx. This is a short step-by-step detailed guide to achieving [...]

  posted in scripts by tom