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In my particular case, I'm using nginx on a group of machines I inherited that are no longer running their own mail servers and all of our web traffic is either static or fastcgi. I had never used nginx before, and now I'm left with the decision of taking the effort to replace it with something I'm more familiar with or learning something new, but I don't know enough about it to know what benefits having it under my belt would hold.

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  • I should I mentioned my normal choice is Lighttpd, not Apache.
    – ironfroggy
    Apr 30, 2009 at 18:29

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I am currently using nginx on a single web server. It hosts mainly static content, some PHP, some Python, and some Ruby. The reason I chose it was for the lightness. I find it to use significantly less memory than Apache and I have had no problems with it thus far. My page load times have even decreased slightly.

I think the main benefit is the lightweight factor. If you are looking for a simple and clean web server, nginx offers a great option.

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  • your load time has increased or decreased?
    – Julien
    Jun 10, 2009 at 0:28
  • Sorry, decreased. Typo :P
    – bjtitus
    Jun 11, 2009 at 3:11
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nginx usage in the Internet is increasing. It's a very lean and fast server, often used as a reverse proxy for e.g. load balancing, but it does a great job on its own. It has great community support and is actively developed by the original author.

I think it's worth to know this tool.

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I can't recommend nginx enough, combined with php-fpm and xcache its excelled in performance compared to every other web server I've ever tried (Apache, IIS, Lighttpd). Extremely flexible, extremely fast, only downside is it takes a while to get setup.

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We've been using nginx as a reverse proxy at work for a long time, and I've recently started using it for php and python projects at home. So +1, definitely worth knowing.

Things feel blazing fast, even on low-end hardware.

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I use it due to it's light weight, but I keep Apache around to handle any pages that absolutely require it (such as those dependant on dynamically updated .htaccess files).

I found a nice way to share a PHP process between the two of them: see my answer at stackoverflow here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/574690/sharing-php-cgi-between-apache-and-nginx

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