Hi,

I don't know. I do know from my experiences with nginx that throughput on some of my other sites has been much greater, with fewer resources being needed.

I also know that my current setup isn't performing as well as I like.

I've heard very good reports about how quickly Tomcat can serve http responses. There's no static content - it's all dynamically generated. So it seems to me that nginx is the fastest and most resource effective way of balancing http traffic over my pool of tomcat servers.

I'm making some fairly big assumptions around how sessions are handled, but I've not seen problems with rails, so I'd expect the same experience with Java.

Hehe, in my case, when I took over the site it used Apacke and mod_jk. I've upgraded the systems and we have carried on with the apache/ajp/tomcat approach. I'm looking at alternatives now.

It would indeed, I will, of course, do some benchmarks and tests first, and report back.

S.