Here is a new plugin for cPanel/WHM to integrate Nginx webserver to your cPanel server. Beta testers are welcome. Why cPnginx ? The cPnginx is a cPanel nginx integration plugin. This plugin will increase your server performance and decrease server loads cased by apache web server. Nginx+cPanel+Apache= Performance boosted secured hosting server How Nginx will help your cPanel server to increase the performance ? Nginx is known for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. Unlike traditional servers, Nginx doesn't rely on threads to handle requests. Instead it uses a much more scalable event-driven (asynchronous) architecture. This architecture uses small, but more importantly, predictable amounts of memory under load. Even if you don't expect to handle thousands of simultaneous requests, you can still benefit from Nginx's high-performance and small memory footprint. Nginx scales in all directions: from the smallest VPS all the way up to clusters of servers. Nginx powers several high-visibility sites, such as WordPress,Hulu, Github,Ohloh, SourceForge and TorrentReactor. See the load average difference after installing Nginx in cPanel server Features of cPnginx High Performance : Nginx will work as a front end reverse proxy of your cPanel server along with apache. Which will increase the performace due to the software architecture. Protection Against Malicious attacks : Nginx will only pass true http requests and protect against attacks like DDOS from your server. Compatible with cPanel : cPnginx is full compatible with cPanel. It have autoinstaller , autoupdate and uninstaller scripts which will make your job easy to integrate it. WHM Plugin Interface : cPnginx whm interface will help you to manage your nginx server completely with in whmcs . It include Nginx configuration editor and service manager. Chkservd Integrated : cPnginx is integrated to your cPanel Server chkservd. This will help to monitor nginx server. GZIP compression , Save bandwidth : cPnginx is integrated with GZIP compression. You can enable and disable this feature.You can also set the compression lever from 1 to 9. To read more about cPnginx please visit : http://cpnginx.com
does this plugin allow auto upgrade on nginx ? and what version of nginx you use stable or development ?