Nginx

[Ryan]

Has anyone here setup Nginx for their WP site?

http://publisherblog.automattic.com/...for-wordpress/

[ryanduff]

I'm sure some of the high-end consultants use it. I'm pretty sure Mark Jaquith has used it on a handful of high traffic projects.

[andrea_r]

For mu sites, yeah. That's what we run on our dedicated box with a few domains of ours. Lovin' it. once you get the rewrite rules down, it's pretty sweet.

[Ryan]

Would it be possible for a webhost to have a shared hosting setup running Nginx?

I've heard such good things about it that it surprises me that it isn't used more heavily with shared hosting setups dedicated to running WordPress powered sites.

Or is there some catch that I'm not aware of?

[andrea_r]

Good question. I'm not sure, really. maybe becasue "everyone else does it" and the software available for webhosting is all Apache based?

[andreasnrb]

Why hosts don't have NGinx support is most likely lack of knowledge. Same reason most don't support Ruby or Python either. Think my host supports NGinX but only for static files.

[aldenml]

Apache is a server with a great number of oldest and trusted modules. Also, the lack of documentation in some areas for nginx can become a problem.

BTW, why put nginx only as a proxy cache when you can use it for handle PHP as well (FastCGI)? I use Nginx+PHP in my VPS with very good results. Even for a low traffic site, you get the advantage of a more predictable memory consumption.

[joetek]

We use nginx at b5media as a load balancer, but still apache / mod_php on the webservers.

The folks at Wordpress.com also use it:
http://barry.wordpress.com/2008/04/2...lancer-update/

[wpmuguru]

Would it be possible for a webhost to have a shared hosting setup running Nginx?

I've heard such good things about it that it surprises me that it isn't used more heavily with shared hosting setups dedicated to running WordPress powered sites.

Or is there some catch that I'm not aware of?

That could be done with nginx. It supports an include /path/to/folder/* for vhost entries. Shared hosts probably won't do that unless cpanel or plesk comes out with a module for writing the vhost files.

We've been using Nginx for over a year. The performance claims I've seen are fairly reflective of our experience :)

[Ryan]

I assumed this wasn't possible with Plesk or cPanel. It just seems like something that would be really useful for a shared hosting environment custom built for WordPress. Something like Page.ly was the sort of thing I have in mind where it isn't intended to be used for anything but WordPress hosting and doesn't come with a control panel. Something idiot proof but can handle gob smacks of traffic.