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We Should Ditch Nginx

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Re: We Should Ditch Nginx

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Post by ars_technician »

secstate wrote: post #8

Sigh. FOSS and NGINX as an example of FOSS have given us so much. If direct to syslog logging is what you're after, why not use Apache? As many people have pointed out before, Apache can certainly be hold a candle to NGINX if you put the time into tuning it. If you're expecting Black Friday traffic of this magnitude, and you haven't spent the last two months planning and load testing for it, you are either lazy or un…

>No one is going to dump NGINX over this.

His post seems to contradict that. People will dump products for very trivial reasons if marketed correctly.

Re: We Should Ditch Nginx

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Post by secstate »

skj wrote: post #4
thejosh wrote: post #3

I hate when people whinge about free software...... You didn't pay anything for it, you use it to make money yet you whinge.

This position is without merit. People have every right to say that one particular free option is not what they're looking for, and explain why it's not what they're looking for.

While I agree with your statement on it's face, in the context of the OP, this is just whinging. The author is not just offering constructive criticism on a possible fork of NGINX, he's calling the NGINX business out for "withholding" features. The tone is distinctly one of being "owed" a feature common to another popular FOSS project, instead of being grateful for everything NGINX provides (which is a lot, and probably why switching to Apache is suggested with some reluctance in the OP).

Re: We Should Ditch Nginx

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Post by davidu »

I'm curious what business model the author of the post thinks would be possible for the author of nginx and not result in this scenario for feature x/y/z?

Also, as an aside, it seems like the author of the post pays for NetApp and the very, very expensive support contracts that come with it, nginx contracts are a walk in the park, financially, in comparison.

Re: We Should Ditch Nginx

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Post by jlawer »

kbar13 wrote: post #5
yeukhon wrote: post #2

> Who will pick up the mantle and actively develop the next game-changing FOSS web server? We are writing and waiting. I don't mean to be harsh - but if you were to suggest people to ditch nginx, take the initiative and fork it and start doing the support. It's one of those "rants" we hear and nobody does anything. > Getting these NGINX log events into a remote server is easy with rsyslog. But preventing the log even…

I think OP's issue is that writing to disk will break his old NetApp install. I don't think it's really that bad to write the local logs to ramdisk and then have the centralized logging system pull the logfiles every so often as a stopgap. VMs are meant to be ephemeral anyways.

> VMs are meant to be ephemeral anyways.

While ephemeral VMs are a great way to operate if your able, I really don't think you can say that your "meant" to operate that way.

Many workloads don't fit that model, and certainly a lot of commercial software is of the type that your not going to want to be re-installing too often and going through re-licensing hell.

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