Using Nginx for Improving The Performance of Server
Most webmasters would agree to the fact that, Apache is one of the best web servers, that holds the capability of running on almost any platform, though it is preferably used on Linux while in a production mode. There are numerous features that are supported by Apache, wherein number of them are implemented as compiled modules extending the core functionality. By making use of almost similar number of resources, both static files such as css, js, html, image files and dynamic files like php, pl, py, etc. are served equally well. This is responsible for creating a bottleneck in system performance when websites receive high traffic and has a number of static files.
One can avoid such things from happening by using nginx and is read as ‘engine x’ for serving static files and makes use of Apache for serving dynamic files. For serving the purpose well, one can get both nginx as well as apache web-server configured for working in collaboration of each other. You are required to install nginx as reverse proxy, by doing this the requests to the server are filtered in a way that the static pages are served by nginx while the dynamic one’s are handled by apache.
Such an architecture helps you with improving the performance of web server, adding more to it is the efficiency of nginx which is incredibly fast in serving static files while allowing Apache to server only the dynamic files or the server scripts hence increasing the overall performance of the cheap hosting UK server. To further improve the performance, you can setup load balancing by adding another nginx and build your own content delivery network (cdn). For doing this, you are required to get yourself a small server from an affordable web hosting provider which is near to the location of your targeted audience or your current users. This would further help your users to experience a better performance.
