Hi all, a week ago someone gave me this link: http://nginx.net Alternative for Apache server , I have already installed nginx on my box and I have to say, it's pretty fast, faster than Apache2. How ever I have been playing with nginx for only one day ... tonight I have to setup PHP, and so on ... I would like to know if anybody here has any experience with nginx ? Would anybody recommend nginx, I would also like to heard critics ... if they are any . PS: Sorry for my english
I've studied Nginx a lot and am running it for a few of my sites that don't use PHP. I'm using it as a frontend web server for directory sites (such as http://www.openproxylist.com/) that run on Pylist (it runs as a separate process via CherryPy). No issues so far and I would highly recommend it for sites with a similar configuration or those serving purely static content. How do you plan to use it with PHP? FastCGI?
Yes, I'll use FastCGI . I just found this tutorial ... http://jit.nuance9.com/2008/01/serving-php5-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-710.html I'll try to make it work on Debian 4 . Do you have any experience with dynamic content ?
From what I have heard, nginx is not compatible with Apache mod_rewrite, so if you have customers using Apache mod_rewrite, they will need to build it again following nginx module
I`ve used lighttpd and nginx but with nginx (currently using it for my proxies with spawn-fcgi) and server load is like 0.04 or 0.05 and sometimes (usually) 0.00. (with at least 1000 visitors per day)