Nginx Server instead of LAMP Hosting Anyone???

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CCarter

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Hey Guys,

Does anyone know of any good Nginx (Pronounced Engine-X) server hosting companies? Doing some research on Nginx, it's researched that of the top 1000 websites, Nginx runs 28.1% of them, and climbing. I'd think someone out there is getting in on the ground floor, since the benchmarks are ridiculous. Apparently a Nginx server can run 1000 simultaneous connections with a low payload (~2.5 MB per 10k inactive HTTP keep-alive connections).

I'm the kind of guy that willing to be on the bleeding edge, so I'm wondering, if anyone here is knows of an Nginx expert?

Thanks in Advance.
 


i believe this very domain and its proprietors are nginx supporters, might want to look a little deeper into that.

i used to be a huge OS nerd, ran openBSD as my desktop OS back in 96/97 with X but segwayed out when i started doing mainstream stuff. that being said, really happy to see a new kid (non-MS) on the OS block on the enterprise level.
 
I don't really understand the question. What would the hosting company have to do with Nginx? Grab a VPS or dedicated server, remove Apache, and install Nginx.
 
I'm guessing you being the custom coder you are, don't plan on using a CMS like Drupal. I use Omega8.cc for my hosting which is a hosting platform specifically for drupal sites based on the nginx os. I'd highly recommend it.
 
I run most of the stuff on nginx in the last couple of years. I don't run anything on shared tho, but I know cpanel nowadays comes with that option, just as long as the hoster chooses it.

I run php-fpm + nginx for the front end and static files. You can run any php site on this setup. php-fpm is memory hungry though.

The advertised low memory footprint is for static sites only. nginx does not have any dynamic support built in.
 
Just get a managed DS or VPS and ask them to set it up for you. They'll probably do it for $50.
 
Nginx is much easier to set-up than Apache, so I don't think you'll have any problems there. I don't know about hosting companies providing Nginx, I just install Ubuntu on a VPS and `apt-get install nginx` and I'm good to go. I run my app on a WSGI server like Gunicorn or CherryPy and use Nginx as a reverse proxy to the WSGI server. The whole Nginx configuration is only a few lines.

Serving static files is even simpler, and installing an SSL cert isn't too difficult , either. I'm not really into sys-admin stuff, so I'll just check StackOverflow or ServerFault for examples.

Hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions.
 
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