<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Apr 8, 2015, at 12:06 AM, James Miller <<a href="mailto:gajs-f0el@dea.spamcon.org" class="">gajs-f0el@dea.spamcon.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">And, finally, what are some other lightweight web servers I might consider?</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">All the cool kids are running nginx nowadays (<a href="http://nginx.org/en" class="">nginx.org/en</a> and <a href="http://mythtv.org/wiki/MythWeb_on_Nginx" class="">mythtv.org/wiki/MythWeb_on_Nginx</a>), it’s noticeably lighter - I used to use apache on my laptop and it was OK but when I switched to nginx it was like it knew what I wanted before I asked for it. The comparison at <a href="http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Web_Server_Performance_Comparison" class="">http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Web_Server_Performance_Comparison</a> matches my experience, particularly the memory usage graph.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One conceptual difference is apache pulls in php as part of its process while nginx expects it to be running as a separate daemon (use php-fpm) and it forwards php requests to it. It’s not so hard to understand, I just wasn’t aware when I switched, so you have to make sure nginx is forwarding to the port that php-fpm is listening on and so forth. No big deal.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- George</div></body></html>