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When comparing LVS vs Nginx, the Slant community recommends Nginx for most people. In the question“What are the best open source web load balancers?” Nginx is ranked 2nd while LVS is ranked 12th.
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PlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac, BSD
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Pro Free and open source
Pro Fast and built for scalability
Nginx is event-driven, asynchronous, non-blocking and single threaded (one master process + worker processes). This allows nginx to be manage resources more efficiently compared to thread-based models (like Apache).
Pro Lightweight
Nginx offers a more basic set of functions out of the box compared most web servers. Extra functionality can be added via modules.
Pro Highly efficient memory use
Pro Highly efficient CPU use
Pro Advanced load balancing and caching
Pro Event Based Request Handling
Does not fork/thread per request.
Pro Easily configurable
Configuration files are concise and simple.
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