reverse proxy vs. stand-alone

[Cliff Wells]

On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 20:24 -0400, jemari wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I am setting up a small VPS. My plan is to have nginx as a reverse
> proxy to apache2 (running with mod-php). All other static files will
> be served by nginx.
> 
> Does anyone know if there would be a significant difference in
> performance and/or stability if I removed apache, and have nginx use
> fcgi for php?

Yes, you'd save hundreds of megabytes of RAM by not using Apache, which
will undoubtedly affect performance in a positive fashion.

Cliff