CustomBuild Nginx edition

Hi,
I agree Apache is the most used web server but nginx is becoming more common day by day.

Please review this trend: http://trends.builtwith.com/Web-Server

Today, I buy one new Dedicated Server and attend to use Directadmin because I think this is lightweight(?). But nginx seems to be not.

Hope you soon release "custom build" which will have nginx is one of options for web servers.

many thanks!
 
I hope that DirectAdmin will consider to add NGINX as an option in the custombuild. Give us the option to go with either Apache or NGINX!

I need better performance, NGINX is proven to run Wordpress 46% faster!, Joomla 25% faster!, Drupal 38% faster!

Falko Timme mentions "At the same time nginx can handle up to 177% as many requests per second (RPS) as Apache." Why wouldnt you want that?

https://timmehosting.de/benchmarks

http://wiki.nginx.org/WhyUseIt
 
bluebirdnet said:
I hope that DirectAdmin will consider to add NGINX as an option in the custombuild. Give us the option to go with either Apache or NGINX!

I need better performance, NGINX is proven to run Wordpress 46% faster!, Joomla 25% faster!, Drupal 38% faster!

Falko Timme mentions "At the same time nginx can handle up to 177% as many requests per second (RPS) as Apache." Why wouldnt you want that?

https://timmehosting.de/benchmarks

http://wiki.nginx.org/WhyUseIt
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If you need more performance you should consider upgrading Custombuild. Custombuild 2 is released with PHP-FPM support which is faster than mod_php (Custombuild 1). And Ngingx doesn't support htaccess, while Wordpress/Joomla is using this feature of Apache.
 
Anyway, with nginx do you have any other alternatives? NGINX+PHP-FPM vs Apache+mod_php. On the servers without directadmin, I choose the very first variant.
 
It may depend on the kind of sites you have. The trouble I'm feeling is the part from going from idle to active, something that is happening a lot on shared hosting. With cgi including php-fpm inactive php sites need to fire up a bit to become faster. If you just have one busy site for one server then I bet php-fpm is very good. There is also the part of fine-tuning the configs, on DA it's all very default right now. I'm no expert on this at all but this is what I've experienced so far.
 
CB 2.0 with nginx support (early alpha) is ready :) It will probably be uploaded to DA servers next week (it's up to John's decision).
 
But I mean is it meant for users who are the only one using the whole environment so they would need to configure htaccess-like things themselves or could it (on long term) be a full apache replacement for shared hosting.
 
It's not a complete replacement and I don't think that nginx developers will change their mind. An article worth reading: http://wiki.nginx.org/LikeApache-htaccess. So the answer is: no, it will not support .htaccess, but you could use rewrites in per-user nginx configuration files.
 
smtalk said:
CB 2.0 with nginx support (early alpha) is ready :) It will probably be uploaded to DA servers next week (it's up to John's decision).
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Wow! Great news. How it works? Like Apache proxy with option to switch directly to php-fpm or total Apache replacement? (My question is - can I use both Apache and nginx and can switch domains between them?)
 
dihuta said:
Can we install and use nginx with DirectAdmin now?
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I'm guessing, not now, not with directadmin, as directadmin should support NGINX (templates). And there was not a pre-release binaries with NGINX support announced yet.
 
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