Nginx is known for its performance and leading in top 10K and 100K sites. Nginx is an open source web server, and it’s fantastic. It integrates well with many backends, application servers. If you are working on Nginx, then you might be aware of Nginx Plus, a commercial version of Nginx. Nginx Plus got more features than Nginx (as you can guess). Ex:

Session persistence to ensure requests are routed to same upstream server High-availability clustering to avoid single point of failures (SPOF) Active health checks to stop sending request to faulty servers Discover services using DNS A full-featured load balancer More control on cache Inbuilt monitoring for debugging, resources utilization, troubleshooting Single sign-on WAF dynamic module Bandwidth controls for Mp4 streaming and many more…

Nginx Plus is available for the following distribution. and also on the following IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service)

Installing Nginx Plus

Nginx offers 30-days FREE trial, so if you want to explore, you can download the trial copy. The following I’ve tested on Google Cloud There are two ways to install Nginx Plus. One is manual which is explained here and secondly is through the script. Let’s use the script way as its easy.

Login to server with the root Execute the below scripts

Replace red color text with one-time hash key provided by Nginx

Ex: That was easy! Let’s start the Nginx and verify the installation by accessing server IP.

and as you can see, it’s success!

Stop/Start Nginx

Procedure to stop and start remain same as Nginx open source.

Real-time Monitoring

As mentioned earlier, Plus provide live activity monitoring where you can check detailed metrics. Ex:

Current and total requests Requests per second Response by HTTP status code Traffic data size by sent and received Upstream requests details

Take a look at the demo site

Nginx Plus looks perfect solution for software-based load-balancing, to improve web performance, serve a large number of visitors concurrently. Do you like Nginx? Give a try to Nginx Plus; you will love it!

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