Simon Willison’s Weblog

Load Balancer Update. 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.

# 1st May 2008, 10:06 am / load-balancing, nginx, pound, wordpress, wordpresscom