Nginx (pronounced “Engine X”) is a high performance web server (and proxy server, but we will be using it as a web server here). In small VPS environments where memory is precious, Apache is at best overkill and uses memory that could be spent elsewhere (like MySQL query caching), at worst a terrible bottleneck that will consistently bring down your site under very moderate loads. If you are willing to live without .htaccess files and Apache-style mod_rewrite rules, Nginx is a great replacement that will lower memory usage and increase performance.
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