Performing load balancing with the Nginx server
Nginx is a free, open source, high-performance HTTP server, and reversed proxy. Unlike traditional servers, Nginx doesn't rely on threads to handle requests. Instead, it uses a much more scalable asynchronous architecture. This architecture uses small and predictable amounts of memory under load.
We can use Nginx to load-balance our node servers and, if it is configured correctly, we won't have to worry about requests being lost between the original handshake and the callback when events are received.
Getting ready
Before we can do effective load balancing with the Nginx server, we will need to install it. Nginx can be installed with Homebrew with the following code:
brew install nginx
Once Nginx is installed, you can start it by running the following code:
sudo nginx
You can also stop it by running the following code:
sudo nginx –s stop
How to do it…
To load-balance a Socket.IO app using Nginx, follow these steps:
Open your
Nginxconfigfile. This...
