Question

Nginx supports __________ through SCGI protocol.

Answer 1

Nginx supports Load Balancing through SCGI protocol.

Short notes on Nginx:

(i) It is an open source web server protocol. It can also serve as a proxy server  for email and reverse proxy and a load balancer for HTTP etc.

(ii) In order to handle multiple requests it uses asynchronous events approach.

(iii) It can deploy HTTP content on a network using SCGI protocol.

(iv) Load balancing is the most efficient way to scale out the application and helps in increasing the performance and redundancy.

(vi) On load balancing, nginx acts as a single entry point to a distributed web application working on multiple servers.

Advantages of Nginx:

(i) High Performance

(ii) Scalable

Hope it helps!