<div dir="ltr">Hey Peter,<br><br>Your 2 cents were spot on. I've now transitioned all my sites to nginx & php-fpm and I'm stunned at the results. Here are the advantages I'm getting:<br><br>1. Nginx and php-fpm are totally independent, they can each run as separate users and communicate via sockets or TCP.<br>
2. php-fpm can be configured to run as a separate user for every virtual host. (bottom line? A user who gains php access to a site can't do any damage to other sites on the same server)<br>3. php-fpm can override php.ini configurations per virtual host! php-fpm itself can be configured per virtual host, so you can control how many php-fpm processes that would go to each virtualhost based on site statistics (have a heavy site? increase its php-fpm config without increasing it for any other site on the server)<br>
4. Unlike apache with fastcgi, nginx with php-fpm shares processes per virtual host, so APC is usable!<br>5. Detaching nginx from PHP means that all static content is served without loading the PHP parser as apache with mod-php does with every request.<br>
6. Nginx is event-driven, even with thousands of connections, nginx memory footprint is nigligible (something around 15 MB RAM!)<br>7. Some more benefits I can't remember :)<br><br>Configuration wise, I can't say it's been a walk in the park. With so many live sites, I had my hand on my heart most of the time and did have down-times during the process no matter how much I tried not to. Nginx is not your simple apt-get install and go, so it's a big leap forward. <br>
<br>But the end result is well worth it. All in all, my sites are blazing fast now. All I can say is WOW! Without going into formal benchmarks, I would say it's 5x speed increase! And my memory footprint has gone down from 2 GB to 1 GB. If I double the php-fpm processes for all my sites, footprint will probably go up, and speed will boost to around 7-8x speed increase! Where on earth was this web server before? Recommendation to all, get on the train :)<br>
<br>Best Regards,<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Peter Droogmans <<a href="mailto:Peter@attiks.com">Peter@attiks.com</a>><br>
To: "<a href="mailto:development@drupal.org">development@drupal.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:development@drupal.org">development@drupal.org</a>><br>Cc: "Ms. Nancy Wichmann" <<a href="mailto:nan_wich@bellsouth.net">nan_wich@bellsouth.net</a>><br>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:51:55 +0100<br>Subject: Re: [development] Experience with mod_fcgid<br><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="NL-BE"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">Hi,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">My 2 cents, give nginx a try, I started using it with <a href="http://drupal.org/project/barracuda" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/project/barracuda</a> and I’m now using it in combination with aegir for my remote servers and to be honest it was one of the best decision ever ;p<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">Cheers,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">Peter<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US"></span><br>
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