NGINX+FastCGI+PHP+Python==teh funs!

I have started using nginx web server for testing Enomalism (to supply the https proxy), and I am really impressed. I also tried to run some php/static serving stuff over it, and the speed increase blew me away. Then I checked out the capacity to handle massively concurrent connections, and was REALLY blown away. I was so excited I actually sent benchmark results to Khaz.

Anyhow, I think that I would like to investigate using nginx with fastCGI and PHP for future high traffic sites, and I am thinking that the combo might actually be the magic bullet for memory heavy sites like Typo3 where the apache process, even with extraneous modules disabled, easily adds another 10M or so per pageview. This becomes even more important on VPS servers where RAM is the most limiting resource you have.

As an added bonus, nobody is targeting nginx with attacks right now.

Benchmarks here:
http://blog.kovyrin.net/2006/08/28/ruby-performance-results/