User talk:BakerSarah

I have been running Nginx (pronounced “engine X”) on my bestessays.com development box and two of my VPS’s. It is Russian, fast and very configurable. I am currently using 0.5.5 for my sites, but don’t be deceived by its version number — it is very stable. * Light weight. It is not as light weight as lighttpd when it clean-starts. At least two processes are needed — one master process running as root that binds to the port, and one or more worker processes that handle the actual requests. Around 7Mb RSS together on my 64bit VPS (and only 4.5Mb on 32bit VPS). Still beats Apache hands down. * Fast. Some benchmarks have shown that Nginx has a slight edge over Lighttpd, but so far I haven’t been able to notice any. Again, much faster than Apache over static file serving or proxying, especially when you turn up the value of keep alive (more than 1 minute for example). * Modules. There are many modules available on Nginx. Some very useful, and some are just plain weird. While lighttpd has Lua embedded, you can now also embed the whole Perl interpretor inside Nginx. * Better Rewrite Module. A much better rewrite module than Lighttpd that supports complex conditions. Porting mod_rewrite rules from Apache is actually now feasible without touching the apps themselves. * Stable and not leaking. Been running Nginx on a production site doing PHP-FastCGI, and have no issue what so ever.