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antihero on Feb 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: 12,000 Requests per second with Nginx, PHP and Mem...

With nginx+PHP script that just echoes "hi", I get a mere ~2000req/sec. What am I doing wrong? What are the specs of his server?

ovi256 on Feb 15, 2011 [–]

He's using the nginx full-page cache mechanism, backed into memcached. This way nginx does not touch PHP at all. It goes straight to memcached, which keeps data in RAM, so it serves pages in 7 ms.

antihero on Feb 15, 2011 | [–]

Fair enough. Surely this would be mostly useless for anything other than static sites though?

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