How to serve high concurrent users with Nginx and PHP

Startup guys are incredibly good with ideas, they can easily bring “Slashdot effect” on their website and obviously they are on low budget in starting days. Now What to do?

Here is the solution: STOP APACHE!! Yes u read that right 😐

service httpd stop

Now, use Nginx a high performance and low resource consuming as your web server, which will handle tremendous concurrent users with negligible memory and too easy.

Here it is how:

yum install nginx

Nginx will serve with PHP via php-fpm, a fast FastCGI Process Manager at default port 9000.

yum install php-fpm

Now start php-fpm

service php-fpm start

Finally start Nginx and serve your site with it

service nginx start

Enjoy. Now you are on high-performance HTTP server and ready to handle as many as requests.