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Ayaz Malik
Ayaz Malik

Reputation: 138

Should i use nginx for my image hosting site with high traffic?

I am suggested by a friend to use nginx for my site http://www.imgzzz.com . its an image hosting site with loads of traffic.

Currently im on a vps ..CentOS 5.4 x64 , Apache

Most views are on image pages. So far to decrease the load on server i have done cache of almost all data like user details, image name, path, category details etc.

Still i have to go with about 3 sql queries every page/view.

  1. Addition of Views
  2. Displaying Views
  3. Addition of user ad views with respect to their ads shown

Considering the traffic from social media sites like digg, stumbleupon. per second online user peaks upto 1500-2500. So i guess you can get the idea of php queries per second.. Sometimes it causes the server to lag.

The rest of the stuff on image pages is static. So now do you guys suggest nginx or any other better option for my server?

Thanks in advance :) Edit : This is a custom system not any cms

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1276

Answers (1)

drewrockshard
drewrockshard

Reputation: 2071

I would recommend using nginx as your static file server. I run nginx for this and it works great, and I could vouch for alot of other people I know that uses it. It's fast and reliable.

Upvotes: 3

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