Translated from 日本語 • View original In the last week of March 2013, I was migrating the environment of the DEVLAB site without anyone knowing.
Until around April 2nd of this week, some people who accessed DEVLAB may have not been able to see the site or had problems, but we hope you can understand all of them as the aftermath of the environment transfer. Well, as one of the raison d'être and operating policies of DEVLAB, we have the concept of "Let's do anything without fear for the research and development of technologies related to the Internet!", so we will continue to do various things "as if ISAO's DEVLAB is curious", "impulsively", and "even if the site breaks". Even if you are moving strangely when you come to the site, -- Oh, are you doing something now? ――I would like you to watch over me warmly (there is a possibility that it is just a bug, but that is also included).
So, I transferred the DEVLAB environment from the Apache environment to the Nginx environment, which is popular now.
In addition, we installed the noSQL database "MongoDB" and Node.js so that we can develop "real-time web applications" in the future, but this is an environment for ISAO engineers, so I don't think it will affect the DEVLAB side so far.
By the way, it is said that the configuration of "Nginx + Reverse Proxy + WordPress" will dramatically improve the performance of WordPress sites, so I immediately implemented this measure in this DEVLAB.
As a result, there was no particular change in the display response (latency) on a one-page basis (on the contrary, Apache won the response on a single-page basis...). However, when I tested the load with Jmeter, I saw a significant improvement in Nginx's response when a large number of simultaneous requests occurred.
In fact, when we compared the request response on the DEVLAB DEVLAB TOP page, the response was about 23 times better than Apache in the Nginx environment.
Oh no, Nginx is amazing! That was my impression.
Well, DEVLAB is not accessed as the load increases at all times, so for now, the Nginx environment feels like a treasure...