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		2mur on Feb 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 12,000 Requests per second with Nginx, PHP and Mem... You should at least try nginx/gunicorn (http://gunicorn.org/). And if your clients are constantly pinging and the data hasn't changed, make sure you are caching it in memcache (etc) to relieve the database. http://ericholscher.com/blog/2010/aug/16/lessons-learned-das...

edanm on Feb 15, 2011 [–]

Honestly, I'm a little scared of using something like gunicorn. I could be wrong, but it seems like an extremely new technology, especially when compared to Apache, which has a lot of history behind it.

antihero on Feb 16, 2011 | [–]

You can have a failover, so if one breaks you can quickly boot the apache one back up.

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