Installing nginx & php-fpm
nginx is a reverse mail/http proxy and web server written by Igor Sysoev. It's shown some very tempting benchmarked performance statistics over apache. Originally written and mostly used in the russian community, it has found a place in the english speaking community and there are now english language docs written for it. PHP-FPM is a php-fastcgi replacement that had various performance and other improvements over the one included in php. As of PHP 5.2.12, PHP-FPM has migrated from being a patch applied to PHP's source to a standalone project. For more about running nginx, php-fpm, and the reason for choosing this architecture, see MigratingFromApacheToNginx.
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