Nginx or Apache for a Wordpress site ?

Agilex85 said:

On the other hand, Nginx is the most popular for high-traffic sites. So it will be easier to find a solution for high traffic websites for Nginx.

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Sure, for people that know or people with large budgets, it's a good option. For your average blogger, apache is the best choice in my opinion. Extensible via plugins, newbie-friendly tutorials, cheap programmers, etc.

I'm a programmer myself and used to recommend to latest and greatest, but as a business owner I've learned that there are other considerations you need to be aware of when choosing a technology.

Honestly I doubt it will make that much difference, I run all my sites on Apache for simplicity (I use DigitalOceans one click install).

Used NGINX in the past, cost benefit it wasn't worth it for me.

I still achieve less than 0.5s load times according to GTMetrix and Chromes audit so there probably isn't much in it.

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I suggest Nginx too cause it work to increase speed of my website too.

Nginx, Its fast and simple !

Bread said:

Honestly I doubt it will make that much difference, I run all my sites on Apache for simplicity (I use DigitalOceans one click install).

Used NGINX in the past, cost benefit it wasn't worth it for me.

I still achieve less than 0.5s load times according to GTMetrix and Chromes audit so there probably isn't much in it.

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If you simulate multiple users using a website you will see the difference.

it's free just for one domain.
Or if you use Open lite speed it's not having all the functions like Litespeed have ( https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/editions )

nikolayev_ said:

You will want to go with Litespeed if your intention is hosting just Wordpress. It's at least 10 times faster. Check this out https://www.litespeedtech.com/images/charts/wp-performance-graph.png

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If you are not the server guy and you have dedicated server or good VPS/cloud plan.
You can go with Directadmin control panel if you will use more domain names, mail and etc. it's easy to use.
And choose nginx_apache option.
Static files are served by Nginx, and php files are processed by Apache.

without any doubt Apache is the best

Nginx is great when you have heavy traffic site.
In terms of speed you can achieve the same by using wp rocket for wordpress.
As far as load managment is concerned nginx does great.

It turns out there is a Onle click instalation for OpenLiteSpeed in DO i will just go with it since OpenLiteSpeed is better than apache and as good or better than Nginx., Thank you all for your input appreciate it

I will always favor Apache since it has been around for a long time. You can find a lot of information on Apache on the net if you find problems with it whereas NGINX has less people talking about it. In terms of performance NGINX is really good for static pages and images (I did a load test where it can serve up to 1800 request per second on a 1 core 512MB VPS) but however I use it to reverse proxy (cache) a apache server. I also use WebMin/VirtualMin, free alternative to CPANEL. All of the apache configuration can be changed in the Webmin Interface.Not sure about whether NGINX has a module in webmin, my NGINX VPS is bare minimal Ubuntu Compact and Nginx only.

What I did was I have CloudFlare -> NGINX -> Apache .. the performance is out of this world. My pages loads extremely fast.

add me in skype if you need more information enzo.cpc

Nginx > apache
And on top of that cache everything with fastcgi if your site is mostly static your server load will be extremly low, on top of that, if you use a cache system on apache it will run really well too. If your site is completely static just get a full CDN and your site will receive 0 load :V

Max5 said:

Thanks , do you think it's a good idea to install wordpress through vestacp ? will this decrease the performance compared to a direct install ?

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Going to be honest with you, last time I used vesta ended up configuring everything myself