Server Farm Setup for Knife Depot

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Post by smusumeche » Thu, Jul 02, 2015, 8:56 PM UTC

Server Farm Setup for Knife Depot
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Re: Server Farm Setup for Knife Depot

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Post by mattkrea » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 4:10 AM UTC

Why do you dislike NGINX?

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Post by nodesocket » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 6:08 AM UTC

I would remove varnish and use nginx anyday. Varnish config makes baby jesus cry.

Re: Server Farm Setup for Knife Depot

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Post by oceanic » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 6:30 AM UTC

Nice diagram, I'm borrowing it as a reference for the setup I'm going to be designing for work soon :-)

Did you consider running nginx for your PHP application servers as well?

Also, can I ask what sort of traffic you get per {{ time period }} ??

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Post by icpmacdo » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 6:58 AM UTC

Would it be possible to take something like that UML, package it up in Docker and have it deploy to your vps in a more complex heroku way? I think that would solve a few common problems.

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Post by mrweasel » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 8:29 AM UTC

icpmacdo wrote: post #5

Would it be possible to take something like that UML, package it up in Docker and have it deploy to your vps in a more complex heroku way? I think that would solve a few common problems.

I can't really figure out if you're being sarcastic or not. There's really no need to add complexity to a setup this simple. Docker would just be another tool to learn and maintain, with very little gain.

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Post by smusumeche » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 11:56 AM UTC

nodesocket wrote: post #3

I would remove varnish and use nginx anyday. Varnish config makes baby jesus cry.

Nginx doesn't do the advanced cache invalidation based on tags in a header.

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Post by smusumeche » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 11:57 AM UTC

mattkrea wrote: post #2

Why do you dislike NGINX?

I don't dislike it at all. I just was hoping to have varnish handle everything on that server.

Re: Server Farm Setup for Knife Depot

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Post by smusumeche » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 11:58 AM UTC

oceanic wrote: post #4

Nice diagram, I'm borrowing it as a reference for the setup I'm going to be designing for work soon :-) Did you consider running nginx for your PHP application servers as well? Also, can I ask what sort of traffic you get per {{ time period }} ??

Not that much. Apache gets about 30-40 requests per second on average. However, this is with Varnish handling a lot of requests that never get sent to the backend.

Re: Server Farm Setup for Knife Depot

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Post by mattkrea » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 12:59 PM UTC

smusumeche wrote: post #8

mattkrea wrote: post #2

Why do you dislike NGINX?

I don't dislike it at all. I just was hoping to have varnish handle everything on that server.

Ah ok, gotcha. As I have to maintain a few legacy PHP servers.. I would strongly recommend you take a look at NGINX + PHP-FPM replacing Apache too so you can simplify the stack a bit.

NGINX is pretty awesome as a reverse proxy (as you must know) but its very nice when you use it as your web server too.