Comments on: VPS hosting, Drupal 6 and nginx

By: Jon Wilbur

Jon Wilbur — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:39:41 +0000

There is a good post on Comparison of VPS Hosting Providers at http://bit.ly/i3UDy8. You may find it helpful.

By: adfa

adfa — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:40:00 +0000

Warning: http://blog.elderec.com/2008/07/16/ubuntu-hardy-nginx-php5-fastcgi/ doesn’t work anymore and it’s now a spam-web.

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Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:45:04 +0000

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Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:16:33 +0000

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By: Webopius

Webopius — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:25:19 +0000

Hi Paul,
We also use the same lightspeed based script. We followed the instructions on this site to get it working:
http://blog.elderec.com/2008/07/16/ubuntu-hardy-nginx-php5-fastcgi/

Here’s the script that spawns the processes to listen on port 9000:
/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9000 -u www-data -g www-data -C 2 -f /usr/bin/php5-cgi

The -C param specifies the number of processes which as you can see for us is 2.

In addition to the usual modules, on our Drupal site we are running CCK, search, taxonomy, image, image assist, pathauto, lightbox2, global redirect, wysiwyg, views and a couple of custom modules we wrote for News articles and Google news support.

At the moment, all is working well however, some people say it might be better to use Apache as the PHP handler for nginx.

For example: http://www.megaburst.com/load-balancing/wordpress-benchmarks-running-on-nginx-php-apache-and-fastcgi/

Although I suspect the caching had a lot to do with the good Apache performance in this case.

By: paul

paul — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:01:08 +0000

hi. i am also a happy slicehost camper. also serving drupal through nginx. i am curious how you have your fastcgi. i have a setup that works, but as i add modules to my drupal install, i am seeing a drop in performance and i’m wondering if there might be a better way or if my config needs tweaking.

i am using a binary called php-fastcgi that is included in the lighttpd package (which i am otherwise not using). i found a little initscript to run php-fastcgi which seems to spawn 5 php-cgi processes.

how did you guys set it up?

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Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:50:33 +0000

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