New to Kutoken: Nginx support

We're pleased to announce that we've now added support for Nginx to Kutoken. This means that setting up a Django site using Nginx is as simple as ./manage.py nginxconf.

Nginx is a high performance and low resource HTTP server, which can best be described by this quote from the Nginx wiki:

Unlike traditional servers, Nginx doesn't rely on threads to handle requests. Instead it uses a much more scalable event-driven (asynchronous) architecture. This architecture uses small, but most importantly, predictable amounts of memory under load. Even if you don't expect to handle thousands of simultaneous requests, you can still benefit from Nginx's high-performance and small memory footprint. Nginx scales in all directions: from the smallest VPS all the way up to clusters of servers.

Nginx is more memory efficient than Apache, making it especially useful for users on our Lite and Basic plans. The config generated by the nginxconf command is optimised for the amount of RAM your machine has, and designed to emphasise stability rather than out and out performance. You can see benchmark results from a Kutoken 'Basic' VM with both Apache and Nginx below.

You can read more about how to configure your Kutoken machine with nginx at our getting started page.

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