Does many of you use nginx on your servers? We are starting to use if on several of our servers now and it seems to reduce the server load almost 3x, does it have any downside during the long run or it is simply better? nginx compared to apache2 is a huge speed improvement. Its mostly due to its event based design which means no thread per connection and no context switching. As well as this it also has a very efficient design memory wise and no module system.
I would be supprised if the improvement was only 3x (well unless you are including the php overhead). I have multiple nginx servers that serve over 10million requests every day, and all on very little resources (256mb ram, etc).
The downsides would be no .htaccess's and a different configuration system (that if you get to know, is arguably more powerful than apache2's). Last edited by SplitIce; Today at 02:40 PM.
I would be supprised if the improvement was only 3x (well unless you are including the php overhead). I have multiple nginx servers that serve over 10million requests every day, and all on very little resources (256mb ram, etc).
The downsides would be no .htaccess's and a different configuration system (that if you get to know, is arguably more powerful than apache2's). Last edited by SplitIce; Today at 02:40 PM.