For an inexperienced VPS administrator, is Nginx a suitable alternative to Apache?
- by James
I couldn't think of the best way to set the title, so if somebody wants to edit it to something more appropriate, I'd be grateful ;)
I'm what I would consider to be an inexperienced user/ administrator when it comes to running my VPS. I can get by with a few CLI commands, I can set up Webmin and I can set up Yum repos, but beyond the very basic stuff, I'm out of my depth.
So far, I'm running Apache. I don't know it particularly well, but I can get by with editing httpd.conf if I'm told what to edit.
I've heard good things about Nginx and that it's not as resource-hungry as Apache. I'd like to give it a go, but I can't find any information about its suitability for administrators like me, with little experience of sysadmin or web server config.
Webmin now has support for Nginx, so getting it installed and running probably won't be too much of a problem. What I'm wondering is, from a site adminstrator perspective, is running Nginx as transparent as running Apache? IE, at the moment, I can just throw up Wordpress and Drupal sites without having much to worry about or having to make any config changes to Apache. Would Nginx be as transparent?
