Hi everyone,
I’ve read many opinions about NGINX with dynamic content versus Apache with dynamic content. I must say that most people feel Apache is a little bit faster than NGINX.
On the other hand NGINX is very often used in the context of static content delivery …
I have both a LAMP as well as a LEMP stack ready and all I have to do is choose between one of them in order deploy my sites.
I will be hosting :
- a pretty simple Wordpress blog,
- a few hundred static pages, which will be updated maybe daily as well (not through WP, but for instance through dreamweaver).
- I will will also be installing a PHP script application which uses MySQL heaily on the same server (or maybe a different one if necessary).
- This is supposed to happen on a 4G server, which I might upgrade later on.
I have dabbled in both Apache and NGINX and I must say that I found NGINX to be easier to configure. It just made more sense to me. However that is secondary. On the other hand, Apache is … well Apache. Using NGINX as a proxy for Apache seems like a ‘complicated’ solution and adds another layer to the setup. Again, some people say it works, some say it doesn’t do much. I guess it all depends.
Now for my question … I would like to get some opinions on what would be a good choice to use. NGINX or Apache ? I can imagine that NGINX with php-fpm is a little slower than apache on the dynamic things, but if there is a traffic spike, maybe NGINX will handle better ? If so, this might be an important thing to consider for me (loosing visitors to time-outs or long request times will cost me). Also … would NGINX be so much slower with dynamic content / php , that it would be noticeable ?
I know that it’s a difficult question to answer, however I would really like to heart, at least some opinions … they might help me with making my choice.
Thanks, Lex
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To get an Nginx+Apache stack without needing to do the configuration yourself, you might want to take a look at ServerPilot. Here’s how ServerPilot configures things:
https://serverpilot.io/community/articles/how-serverpilot-configures-your-lamp-stack.html
Using this approach gives you the scalability and HTTP/2 benefits of Nginx with the .htaccess and mod_rewrite flexibility of Apache.
the same question came into my mind few days earlier, and what i found after searching so many articles and feedback, it’s a very little improvement on Apache+Nginx over Nginx alone. so my opinion its not worth the hard work.
Nginx as default works good, but you should search for optimization to make your server fly.
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