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Deploying NGINX Plus as a Cloud Load Balancer for OpenStack table, th, td { border: 1px solid black; } th { background-color: #d3d3d3; align: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-top: 2px; line-height: 120%; } td { padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } td.center { text-align: center; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; line-height: 120%; } More and more organizations are embracing cloud computing. Moving applications into the cloud comes with several benefits, including cost reduction and agility. At the same time, quite often it can be a challenging task. Many organizations choose to build their own private clouds, either on their premises or hosted at a cloud provider, over using public cloud offerings. Having open source software that allows organizations to effectively build and manage private clouds is highly important. OpenStack is such software. It is a joint development [ more… ]

Booxware Wins Big with NGINX Plus, Gaining Security, Simplicity, and Performance     Situation Booxware Software Development GmbH is a German-based company that develops and operates gaming applications for Tipico, an international provider of sports betting and casino games. Sports betting is extremely popular, with millions of bets being placed each day through Booxware’s systems. Booxware runs approximately 200 applications on 120 servers to provide high-quality services to sports enthusiasts across Europe. Sports betting is heavily regulated, and gaming companies like Booxware regularly upgrade their systems to stay in compliance with industry requirements as they evolve to incorporate the latest best practices in software security. For several years, Booxware had successfully used the open source NGINX software for basic load balancing and SSL termination. Previous upgrades to new versions of open source NGINX had all gone smoothly, but the last [ more… ]

Improving Server Configuration with NGINX Amplify Reports NGINX Amplify, our new cloud‑based monitoring and assistance platform, has been very successful so far. Thousands of NGINX users are learning more about their installations, monitoring and improving server performance, and tuning configuration, security, and scalability problems using NGINX Amplify. This blog post is the second in a series about how to monitor NGINX and make the most out of your web delivery infrastructure with NGINX Amplify: Setting Up NGINX Amplify in 10 Minutes Improving Server Configuration with NGINX Amplify Reports (this post) NGINX Amplify analyzes your NGINX configuration, and provides useful recommendations based on years of our collective experience with tuning, optimizing, and operating NGINX‑powered sites. We created this service so you can take advantage of this knowledge and have all your configuration files checked by our automated system. This post provides some deeper insight into one specific [ more… ]

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… ]