Nginx can be used to greatly enhance the performance of a website or application when used to serve static assets to the browser. This course demonstrates current issues with typical setups (for example, Apache) and compares performance with an Nginx setup, showing decreased load times and decreased server resource usage. The remainder of the course covers how to install and configure Nginx to perform the role of a reverse proxy, along with specific examples of common site infrastructure, such as a WordPress install, and how to configure Nginx for this type of setup.
Course Instructor
Chris Lea
Chris Lea is Vice President of Business Development for (mt) Media Temple, with over a decade of experience working with programming, system administration, and performance engineering issues at large scale. He's been using Linux as his primary desktop operating system since 1997, and actually knows what all that mess in the /proc filesystem is there for.