Articles by KENNETH

Using NGINX and NGINX Plus with SELinux Editor – The blog post titled “NGINX: SELinux Changes when Upgrading to RHEL 6.6 / CentOS 6.6” redirects here. This article provides updated and generalized information. The default settings for Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) on modern Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and related distros can be very strict, erring on the side of security rather than convenience. Although the default settings do not limit the functioning of NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus in their default configurations, other features you might configure can be blocked unless you explicitly allow them in SELinux. This article describes the possible issues and recommended ways to resolve them. [Editor – This article applies to both NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus. For ease of reading, the term “NGINX” is used throughout. CentOS is a related distro originally derived from RHEL and is supported by NGINX [ more… ]

NGINX Plus vs F5 BIG-IP: 2018 Price-Performance Comparison table.nginx-blog, table.nginx-blog th, table.nginx-blog td { border: 2px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; } table.nginx-blog { width: 100%; } table.nginx-blog th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } table.nginx-blog td { padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } table.nginx-blog td.center { text-align: center; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } Two years ago, we compared the price and performance of NGINX vs. the F5 BIG-IP. Based on our testing, we determined NGINX on commodity hardware exceeded the performance of F5 BIG-IP while providing cost savings of up to 84%. Since we published that report, F5 has refreshed the BIG-IP line of hardware load balancers, introducing the new BIG-IP iSeries. The iSeries hardware promises better price and performance compared to previous [ more… ]