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apache, nginx, lighttpd, which perform better?

edited November 2011 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8
which one is better for vanillaforums?

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  • TimTim Vanilla Staff
    Answer ✓
    We support Apache and nginx quite easily, but have done no testing with lighttpd. We use nginx internally on vanillaforums.com to great effect, and prefer it to Apache by a large margin. One of the benefits of nginx is that it uses bare nginx threads to server static content and only uses PHP to deal with actual php files.

    Vanilla Forums COO [GitHub, Twitter, About.me]

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  • x00x00 MVP
    edited November 2011
    nginx is the scalable solution, but for starting out apache is sufficient. Read this:

    http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/146754#Comment_146754

    grep is your friend.

  • TimTim Vanilla Staff
    Answer ✓
    We support Apache and nginx quite easily, but have done no testing with lighttpd. We use nginx internally on vanillaforums.com to great effect, and prefer it to Apache by a large margin. One of the benefits of nginx is that it uses bare nginx threads to server static content and only uses PHP to deal with actual php files.

    Vanilla Forums COO [GitHub, Twitter, About.me]

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