WhyUseIt

= Why Use Nginx? =

There have been a couple benchmarks done that show Nginx to edge out other lightweight webservers and proxies, and to stomp out the not-so lightweight ones.

Some people say those benchmarks weren't valid because the competition wasn't tuned this way or that, etc. I tend to agree that benchmarks only tell part of the story and that there's little you can do to truly remove bias from them anyway (has anyone ever seen a benchmark that everyone agreed was fair? Me either).

Anyway, rather than post links to benchmarks for people to argue over (you can use Google to find them yourself if you like), instead, what follows is quotes from people using Nginx in the real world, under real load, serving real applications and websites.

Please feel free to add your own testimonial, but see the Notes at the bottom of this page before you do.

Quotes
We've replaced our Squid (reverse proxy) + Apache setup with nginx, and load average as well as CPU usage have been reduced by half. In addition to that our benchmarks show that the new setup can handle about two to three times as many requests per second (RPS) as the old setup.

-- HowtoForge

We've done some benchmarks for CMS systems such as Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, TYPO3, etc., and the result is that nginx delivers pages up to 50% faster than Apache. At the same time nginx can handle up to 177% as many requests per second (RPS) as Apache.

-- Timme Hosting