I spent this weekend testing and installing nginx and I have said Adios to Apache! Let me tell you why I have done that.
I am running this blog on a slicehost.com 256Mb Xen VPS, using WordPress. I have been using Apache 2.2 for almost a year now without any problems. But recently I deployed a little Ruby on Rails application using mongrel for my wife’s business, and then suddenly I ran out of memory. Each Apache worker was easily taking 15 to 20Mb, even with a really cut-down configuration and built on Gentoo.…