<quote who="Xuepeng Li">

> "The main nginx advantage is that it gets quickly whole response from
> backend and frees it to handle other requests."
>
> Sorry, I don't understand how enginx could "get quickly whole response",
> the response time is decided by apache server(business logic), why enginx
> could do it more quickly than direct connetion ?

nginx would be running on the same machine or LAN as the server producing
the dynamic content rather than X many hops away over slower connections. It
can grab the response, buffer it, and manage the connection with the client.

- Jeff

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