forkless wrote:There are many considerations to be made if you want to migrate from Apache to nginx, long story short if your webserver buckles due to continous load you need to consider moving onto a proper dedicated co-located webserver with a good bit of memory and cpu horsepower, because 2GB of memory for a webserver where half of it is lost on running the storage services and other multimedia stuff is not much to begin with.
Anyway, Apache is almost identical in performance if it doesn't have AllowOverride configured (and depending configuration it can be even faster than Nginx). Which simply means no more .htaccess magic but just putting the Apache directives in the virtual host configuration.
Having said that the memory footprint of Nginx is much smaller than Apaches which is beneficial on minimal hardware configurations such as a NAS, which results in less requests from swap memory (disk thrashing).
Like I mentioned before however, if it actually comes to that (due to site popularity) you may actually want to consider getting a proper webserver in place that has normal means of keeping it up to date/secure and is located in a place where you can easily scale up rather than to mess about with a standalone 'for funsies' web server platform on an SOHO grade server.
i think one of the other benefits of nginx is how it can cope with more connections (from site surfers) compared to apache which quickly diminishes in performance because it scales worse compared to nginx in that regard. So for a big site, nginx scales better for bigger audiences. Apache works well for smaller audiences in the long term.
php hm... hopefully we get to see some updates soon.
Uh.... does the qnap automatically use this qpkg php after it's installed/enabled. Or does the user have to edit the conf files to link to it
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PS: other interesting developments the new http 2.0 standard will be able to cope with more simultaneous connections better, and also offset the need for queueing things in order which would cause a bottleneck and effectively slow down page load. this paired with nginx to handle many connections is nice
) which is due in Q3 of this year.
