Comments on: My Webserver Setup and Specifications, Load and Performance (after a Slashdot optimisation session.) http://hiblue.com/2009/11/23/my-webserver-setup-and-specifications-load-and-performance-after-a-slashdot-optimisation-session/ Cloud-hopping with Mobility and the best of Web Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:27:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Marc http://hiblue.com/2009/11/23/my-webserver-setup-and-specifications-load-and-performance-after-a-slashdot-optimisation-session/comment-page-1/#comment-601 Marc Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:37:07 +0000 http://hiblue.com/?p=145#comment-601 I personally decided to go away from Apache and use nginx. For PHP I used PHP-FPM and I am really happy with it. Blazing fast, almost no memory usage and runs my ruby apps fine too. The only downside is the weird use of modrewrite in a lot of PHP apps. I don't really get why that many people are designing web applications that rely on a feature of the webserver. It is really easy to find the "adapted" entries for the nginx config files to replace .htaccess though. Here are some benchmarks I found: http://blog.a2o.si/2009/06/24/apache-mod_php-compared-to-nginx-php-fpm/ I personally decided to go away from Apache and use nginx.
For PHP I used PHP-FPM and I am really happy with it. Blazing fast, almost no memory usage and runs my ruby apps fine too.

The only downside is the weird use of modrewrite in a lot of PHP apps. I don’t really get why that many people are designing web applications that rely on a feature of the webserver. It is really easy to find the “adapted” entries for the nginx config files to replace .htaccess though.

Here are some benchmarks I found: http://blog.a2o.si/2009/06/24/apache-mod_php-compared-to-nginx-php-fpm/

]]> By: turn.self.off http://hiblue.com/2009/11/23/my-webserver-setup-and-specifications-load-and-performance-after-a-slashdot-optimisation-session/comment-page-1/#comment-599 turn.self.off Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:44:42 +0000 http://hiblue.com/?p=145#comment-599 sounds like a "perfect storm". sounds like a “perfect storm”.

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