Articles by KENNETH

Global Load Balancing with Amazon Route 53 and NGINX Plus In a classic study, the retail division of Amazon tested various page load times and found that revenue dropped 1% for each additional 100 milliseconds it took for a page to load. It’s no surprise that application performance directly impacts revenue, as customers increasingly expect instant access from anywhere to the applications they depend on. With the amount of competition in today’s digital economy, customers can quickly and easily move to a competitor if your site doesn’t meet their expectations. Global load balancing (GLB) – also called global server load balancing or GSLB – improves load times by directing end users to the copy of a resource that is closest to them (where “closest” is usually measured in terms of network latency). A lot of our customers that host applications in Amazon Web Services [ more… ]

5 Reasons to Switch to Software Load Balancing td { padding-right: 10px; } This post is adapted from a webinar by Floyd Smith and Faisal Memon from NGINX,  Inc. Our new ebook on the topic is available for download. Table of Contents 0:00 Introduction 1:38 Who Are You? 3:53 From Hardware to Software 6:33 The Leading Web Server for the Busiest Sites in the World 8:48 Where NGINX Fits 9:32 Modern Web Architecture 10:42 DevOps Works Great with NGINX 12:30 NGINX Plus Capabilities 14:41 Customer Case Study – WordPress.com 16:42 Customer Case Study – Montana Interactive 18:43 Customer Case Study – BuyDig.com 20:10 Ebook – 5 Reasons to Switch to Software for Load Balancing 21:22 Reason #1 – Dramatically Reduce Costs 23:19 NGINX Plus vs. F5 BIG‑IP 24:37 NGINX Plus vs. Citrix NetScaler 26:52 Reason #2 – DevOps Requires Software Application Delivery 31:59 Reason #3 – Deploy Everywhere with One ADC 35:42 Reason #4 – Adapt Quickly [ more… ]