Today my blog database was totally destroyed because of hardware failure. 
Blog was restored from not so fresh backup, so many comments and last two or three posts has been lost and I have restored them from archives of my RSS feeds. I want to aplogize to all my readers, who uses RSS-feeds and got some strange info about last posts – while I was restoring my posts, there was incorrect information in my feeds. Sorry, guys…
After my first post about nginx web and reverse-proxy server, I have received many e-mail comments and questions. One of the most popular questions was “How to use PHP with nginx?”. This small howto-like article is about how to do it.
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Two weeks ago we have started new version of one of our primary web projects and have started very massive advertisement campaign to promote this web site. As the result of that advertisements, our outgoing traffic has been increased to 200-250Mbit/s from only one server! In this article I will describe, how to build stable and efficient web site with two-layer architecture (with frontend + backend web servers) or how to modify your current server configuration to get additional resources to handle more requests.
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