Apache + php-fpm vs Nginx + php-fpm

2017-04-03 14:08:41 1 回复 0

I have a wallpaper website (almost all traffic goes to images). I use the following apps to serve.

apache2 + php5.3 + CGI/FastCGI

I have recently read that Nginx is faster than Apache. Also, many people advise using php-fpm. Do you recommend me to move my website to

Nginx+php-fpm

or just make

apache2 + php-fpm?

There definitely is a difference in performance of Apache and NGINX.

Both have their strongsuits and their weaknesses but in general:

If PHP has to do a lot of work Apache will actually be faster because mod_php is a part of the Apache itself and is really good integrated.

The additional (f)cgi takes some time too when using Nginx and thus making it slower on PHP-heavy applications.

Conclusion

Do you only want to serve a lot of static data (like images) you are better of with NGINX, because if excells on static content.

--> In your case I'd go with NGINX...don't forget to make good use of NGINX' caching-mechanisms!