[Sysadmin] filesystem layout and promoting me

[John Handelaar]

2008/11/22 Adrian Simmons <adrian at perlucida.com>:
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> On 22 Nov 2008, at 18:41, John Handelaar wrote:
>> Is now a good time for me to suggest we stop using Apache?
> Ha. I was waiting for that one. What is it you like? nginx? lighttpd?

I can *vouch for* nginx with 4 or 5 daemonised php5-cgi processes
providing fastcgi.  I haven't used lighty.

The fastcgi part of the equation gets us some serious speed
optimisations for free if we install the APC cache module to PHP --
the PHP files stay in memory, byte-compiled, which dramatically cuts
down on both disk access and CPU usage.

Maybe we should try out Drupal's memcache module as well?


jh