This article is part 2 of a series about building a high-performance web cluster powerful enough to handle 3 million requests per second. For this part of the project, you can use any web server you like. I decided to use Nginx, because it’s lightweight, reliable, and fast. Generally, a properly tuned Nginx server on Linux can handle 500,000 – 600,000 requests per second. My Nginx servers consiste
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