Why set keepalive_timeout to a short period when Nginx is great at handling them?.md 527 B
Title: "Why set keepalive_timeout to a short period when Nginx is great at handling them?" Date: 2017-12-05 11:49:57 Categories: [web server] tags: [nginx, performance]
Authors: sedlav
Keep alive is a HTTP feature which allows user agents to keep the connection to your server open for a number of requests or until the specified time out is reached. This won’t actually change the performance of our nginx server very much as it handles idle connections very well.