Speed matters.

Since more than half a year Lovely Systems is using the extremely fast, super reliable, super easy, super duper NGINX Reverse Proxy. Congratulations NGINX! According to the latest Netcraft Survey 06/2008 NGINX is already number 5 of the Webservers worldwide! Seems like we had the right anticipation :)

As the blog post title mentions - Speed matters. There are some more news… We’re happy to announce that we upgraded our Loadbalancers and finally bought a pair of F5 BIG-IP Loadbalancers. F5 is the global leader in application delivery networking and the products are well known for their stability. To quote Töns Büker, our Servicemanager at o2 (Germany): “Der LB wird aber wahrscheinlich auch noch auf ping antworten, wenn jemand Benzin drübergegossen und ihn angezündet hat …”. After the upgrade we’ll be able to serve up to 650 MBit/s dynamic traffic from our Application Server Cluster and up to 2 GBit/s of static (e.g. Video) traffic from our content delivery cluster.