reverse proxy vs. stand-alone

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:36:15PM -0700, Cliff Wells wrote:

> 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.

Would not these megabytes go to php/FastCGI ?


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