Nginx 1 Web Server Implementation Cookbook

Dipankar Sarkar

Packt Publishing, Limited, May 23, 2011 - Computers - 220 pages

This is a cookbook full of illustrations and diagrams to help you implement your web needs with Nginx, with a focus on practical examples. If you are tired of Apache consuming all your server memory with little traffic and to overcome this, or for some other reason, you are looking for a high-performance load-balancing proxy server and have tried using Nginx, then this book is for you. You need some basic knowledge of Nginx. System administrators and web developers will benefit greatly from this book.

About the author

Dipankar Sarkar is a web and mobile entrepreneur. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is a firm believer in the Open source movement and has participated in the Google Summer of Code, 2005-06 and 2006-07. He has conducted technical workshops for Windows mobile and Python at various technical meetups. He recently took part in the Startup Leadership Program, Delhi Chapter. He has worked with Slideshare LLC, one of the world's largest online presentation hosting and sharing service as an early engineering employee. He has since then worked with Mpower Mobile LLC, a mobile payment startup and Clickable LLC, a leading search engine marketing startup. He was a co-founder at Kwippy, which was one of the top micro-blogging sites. He is currently working in the social TV space and has co-founded Jaja.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Nginx 1 Web Server Implementation Cookbook
• Author: Dipankar Sarkar
• Publisher: Packt Publishing, Limited, 2011
• ISBN: 1849514976, 9781849514972
• Length: 220 pages
• Subjects: Computers / General