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Cloudflare used NGINX up until recently and that would be Google scale IMO

• donboscow 4y ago
  Good to know. Any idea why Google chose to use custom servers instead of opting for Nginx or Apache? Specially when Nginx offers excellent load balancing capabilities in-built?
  • detaro 4y ago
    Because their own can solve their problems better. Note that the Cloudflare reference is "used to" - just because you can use nginx at scale doesn't mean it's the best, and all such deployments aren't running stock nginx, and not nginx alone.
    • donboscow 4y ago
      Got it. Thanks. Which servers are best suited to handle such high levels of load, and are available for free and open usage like Nginx or Apache is? I read that Apache has even more problems than Nginx.
      • bosch_mind 4y ago
        Nothing wrong with NGINX. Read Cloudflare post on Pingora. Different needs for different usecases where NGINX is more of an OOTB situation. NGINX is great. I see Caddy mentioned quite a bit, believe it’s written in Go where NGINX is written in C. Cloudflare wrote Pingora in Rust IIRC and I want to say they are releasing an open source flavor
        • donboscow 4y ago
          Hmm I read the post. Cloudfare handles almost 1 trillion requests per day, Google does that per year. However, the request types are different, Cloudfare handles a variety of requests like caching and forwarding, while Google requests are about serving complete web pages. May be for the webserver purpose like Google Nginx may suffice?
          • ngetchell 4y ago
            I'm sorry but those numbers can't be right. Google Analytics is embedded in enough sites to hit a trillion hits a day.
          • bosch_mind 4y ago
            Cloudflare serves web pages bro because they proxy the bytes between servers from origin to eyeball
• donboscow 4y ago
  TBH, looks like Nginx has bunch of issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbOAHkaFU6w&ab_channel=HusseinNasser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbOAHkaFU6w&ab_channel=Husse...