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Nginx Load Balancing Basics

by @jimaek blog.jsdelivr.com published 2013-02-143 min read

Nginx is a powerful high performance web server with a lot of features that can help high load projects to overcome their problems. Here you can see a particular feature of Nginx that allows you to load balance the traffic across multiple external and internal(on same hardware) servers. Load

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