Comments on: Nginx and Mirror on Demand http://hostingfu.com/article/nginx-and-mirror-demand Web Hosting Blog by a Software Developer Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:17:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mike503 http://hostingfu.com/article/nginx-and-mirror-demand/comment-page-1#comment-717 mike503 Sun, 04 May 2008 09:44:42 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=125#comment-717 <p>I would think mainly due to the files being changed at the source...</p> <p>I'm thinking you have something like a large RAID array, and this would be a nice way to save trips back to the source. I don't believe it actually -writes- any files unless the application can speak REST/DAV?</p> <p>Also you might run out of disk space on web nodes, as those typically don't have enough room for your full website's data... so you could set it up as an LRU read-through cache basically, much like memcached would be used in front of MySQL...</p> I would think mainly due to the files being changed at the source…

I’m thinking you have something like a large RAID array, and this would be a nice way to save trips back to the source. I don’t believe it actually -writes- any files unless the application can speak REST/DAV?

Also you might run out of disk space on web nodes, as those typically don’t have enough room for your full website’s data… so you could set it up as an LRU read-through cache basically, much like memcached would be used in front of MySQL…

]]> By: Hone http://hostingfu.com/article/nginx-and-mirror-demand/comment-page-1#comment-716 Hone Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:42:50 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=125#comment-716 <p>Why would you need to temporarily invalidate the cache?</p> Why would you need to temporarily invalidate the cache?

]]> By: JosephB http://hostingfu.com/article/nginx-and-mirror-demand/comment-page-1#comment-715 JosephB Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:40:36 +0000 http://hostingfu.com/?p=125#comment-715 <p>Using nginx-0.6.5 I found that the proxy_temp_path directive doesn't work.</p> <p>"proxy_temp_path /data/temp;"</p> <p>this seems to be ignored and nginx uses the directive specified at compile time, by default that is /usr/local/nginx/html</p> Using nginx-0.6.5 I found that the proxy_temp_path directive doesn’t work.

“proxy_temp_path /data/temp;”

this seems to be ignored and nginx uses the directive specified at compile time, by default that is /usr/local/nginx/html

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