I'm of the opinion that Apache is still the best fit for PHP. However, when Apache is running with PHP, mod_rewrite and all that sort of lovely stuff it's not ideal for serving static content.
I use Nginx for serving up my static content and then proxy-pass through to Apache for everything else. If a page has 40 static assets then the Apache requests drop from 41 to 1. Good way of taking the stress off of Apache. Kind regards, Keri Henare --------------------------------------------------- Chief Technical Officer Pixel Fusion [e] [email protected] [w] pixelfusion.co.nz [m] (+64) 021 874 552 [p] (+64) 09 550 3084 PLEASE NOTE: I check my email 3 times per day and will respond at these intervals. For anything urgent please ring me. --------------------------------------------------- On 15/07/2010, at 9:45 AM, Warwick wrote: > Hi there > > I need a very fast, versatile and scalable web server set up to serve > a (hopefully) viral application. Have been looking at nginx from the > recommendation of a colleague but would appreciate comments, thoughts > and suggestions from the group please. > > Will be using php/mysql at this stage for the app, although that could > change too. > > Any thoughts please? Any experiences? > > Thanks > Warwick > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
