http://jamiemurai.com/2008/01/wordpress-with-apache-and-nginx/feed/ 2008-05-03T19:34:33-04:00 Chyrp tag:jamiemurai.com,2008-09-22:/id/6/comment_13 2008-09-22T22:30:08-04:00 2008-05-03T19:34:33-04:00 Warren http://www.warrenonline.ca <p>I've put nginx in front of apache2 and it all works just fine. The only thing is that I can't really tell if nginx is actually serving up the static files ? Thanks for the article by the way !</p> tag:jamiemurai.com,2008-09-22:/id/6/comment_14 2008-09-22T22:29:42-04:00 2008-02-24T23:32:59-04:00 Jamie http://jamiemurai.com <p>Thanks for the comment Jamie!</p> <p>Setting a far in the future expiration date for existing static files would keep them from being downloaded a second time, but what about newly added static file? For example, a site that is frequently updated with new images would benefit from those images being served from NginX.</p> <p>Also, setting the expiration date ahead is good for users who have previously visited your site, but what about first time users? Or users who have cleared out their temporary internet files? What if the site was dugg? You would be receiving a large spike in traffic from users who need to download all that static content. In those cases, your performance will benefit greatly from NginX's ability to quickly serve static files.</p> tag:jamiemurai.com,2008-09-22:/id/6/comment_12 2008-09-22T22:30:29-04:00 2008-02-24T22:54:26-04:00 Jamie Thingelstad http://www.thingelstad.com/ <p>I'm just curious -- is it worthwhile to do all this work for static files when you could just set the expiration date way in the future and try to only serve those files once?</p>