The Difference Between Apache and NginX Apache and NginX are two important players in the web server sector. According to Stackscale, Apache makes up roughly 34% of the web server market and NginX accounts for about 33%. But how are they different? When should you use one over the other? We’re going to compare and… Read more »
What Does a Web Server Do? Intro to Web Servers
Monday, January 3, 2022
What Does a Web Server Do? Intro to Web Servers Here at A-Team Systems, we get all kinds of questions from people. One common one is, “What does a web server do?” So today, we put together this resource to answer that question! Afterwards, if you still find yourself needing answers, or you’d like server… Read more »
NginX “service nginx upgrade” / kill SIGUSR2 results in shutdown() failed (54: Connection reset by peer)
Friday, July 22, 2016
Huge thanks to Ganbold Tsagaankhuu who finally got to the bottom of this issue. NginX is a great web server, and is built from the ground up for high volume, zero down time environments. One of the most basic features of such a service is the ability to restart completely (not just child processes, which… Read more »
NginX Add Trailing Slash With 301 Redirect Without If Statements
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
We had a situation where a client using Joomla wanted to have trailing slashes added to URLs, not just processed behind the scenes as the ‘correct’ URL but 301ed to the resulting URL with the trailing slash. This makes sense from a SEO standpoint as you don’t want two URLs with the same content. Joomla… Read more »
Continuous SSL Monitoring
Monday, May 25, 2015
A-Team Systems has just completed full integration of Qualys’ SSL Labs testing suite into our client server monitoring infrastructure. All of our maintenance and monitoring plans now include continuous best practice configuration, protocol, and certificate monitoring for all HTTPS sites — automatically! This ensures our client’s SSL configurations are always the most secure as industry… Read more »