Chapter 2. Managing Nginx

In a web server running at full scale, thousands of events are occurring each second. Micromanaging these events is obviously not possible, yet even small glitches are able to cause serious deterioration of quality of service and affect user experience.

To prevent theses glitches from happening, a dedicated webmaster or site reliability engineer must be able to understand and properly manage the processes behind the scenes.

In this chapter, you will learn how to manage an Nginx instance in operation, and we will discuss the following topics:

• Starting and stopping Nginx
• Reloading and reconfiguring processes
• Allocating worker processes
• Other management questions