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Nginx: Accelerate Rails, HTTP Tricks
Nginx is a web server that is faster, uses less memory and is more stable than Apache under load. It is better suited for Rails applications and cloud computing. Nginx acts as a proxy, routing requests to application servers. It can perform request filtering, like caching requests, and authentication checks without modifying Rails application code using custom Nginx modules. This allows separating infrastructure concerns from application logic.
