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by mfjordvald 5370 days ago
It's worth keeping an eye on the current development version goes stable. 1.1.4[1] introduced preliminary HTTP/1.1 reverse proxying which means persistent connections to the backend and thus less overhead.

[1] http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?27,215419,215419#msg-215419

There are also a ton of bug fixes related to CPU hogging and caching that makes it worth upgrading, especially considering how painless it is.