Nginx + VHCS

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(07-11-2010 08:31 PM)splitice Wrote:  It appears that they are using apache proxy pass through (what I am using at the moment) Im looking at full nginx support.

For this - you'll have to create the templates accordingly - and what's one of the bigger problems - change the fastcgi part. Because there's no automatic launching of fastcgi processes possible with nginx.

There might be a way into it using php-fpm with newer php versions. But since there's actually no stable php release including the fpm (afaik) ,
i'd not recommend this for the average user.

If you're using fpm, then you can start 1 php process per user and have adaptive spawning active.
If you've a lot customers ( => 100 ) you should take into account, that every customer will take at least 15-20 Mb of your ram.
So it's not useful for small servers. The minimum amount of ram should be around 4gb to have reasonable performance (this should be standard anyway but ... ) .