Graphing the switch to Nginx
As a quick followup to my previous post detailing how to run WordPress behind a Nginx reverse proxy I thought I’d post an interesting graph retrieved from Google Webmaster Tools showing page load times of this site over the past few months:
I switched to the Nginx/Apache configuration just before the start of June and, thankfully, it appears that the performance increase I noticed has also been observed by others.
Additionally, Google reports that the slowest load time was a shocking 5,572ms with a fastest time of 225ms. Not too shabby from a single 256MB server.
It would be even faster if you remove Apache from the process completely and switch to running PHP from the PHP-FPM instead of Apache's mod_php. Apache is just too large and slow for modern needs when we have awesome servers like nginx.
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LikeIn an ideal world that would be the case. Unfortunately due to a combination of various plugins that I need (caching plugins etc.) and Wordpress itself requiring various RewriteRules in a .htaccess file (I could fake it in the Nginx conf, but.. yeah) Apache is still the only option.
When I next update this site I'm going pure Nginx - whether it's running Wordpress or not :)
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