http://simonwillison.net/2008-05-01T10:06:13+00:00Simon Willison2008-05-01T10:06:13+00:002008-05-01T10:06:13+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/May/1/load/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://barry.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/load-balancer-update/">Load Balancer Update</a></strong></p> WordPress.com has switched from Pound to nginx for load balancing, resulting in a significant drop in CPU usage. I’ve been using nginx on my little VPS for over a year now with no complaints, nice to know it scales up as well as down. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/load-balancing">load-balancing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nginx">nginx</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pound">pound</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wordpress">wordpress</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/wordpresscom">wordpresscom</a></p>