I just moved the majority of my web infrastructure from Apache to nginx, and I'm pretty happy with this move.
Initially, I just wanted to deploy a dead-simple Python web application, and doing it (in a clean way) with Apache is a complete nightmare. This was the straw that broke the camel's back: I always wanted to try something else than Apache, let's go for nginx !
First impression: the configuration's format is simple and clear ! No more mod_macro or even worses hacks, I've got my whole configuration in less than 200 lines file that is even pleasant to read ! First, I wanted to use it as frontend to Apache and as reverse-proxy for various others to play with Python and Ruby, but I ended with Apache being used only for some uglies CGI, like Icinga's ones.
Nginx is incredibly flexible and simple (but not simplistic !), I'm using it for:
- Reverse-proxying python/ruby web application
- Serving and cache all my static content
- Serving some php-powered stuffs
- Self-proxying applications that aren't very comfortable with ssl (hint: Wordpress)
Since they are already an impressive shitload of (pleasant) documentations/examples about nginx all around the Internet, I don't post my configuration here because it's not really custom/exceptional. But feel free to drop me a mail if you absolutely want it.
Except some blogposts about deploying useless stuffs with nginx ;)