Why Nginx is faster and better than Apache?

Life Sayings · May 1, 2017

I want to know why Nginx web server is faster and better than Apache? does any one explain me?

VirtuBox · May 1, 2017

Nginx was designed to handle a lot of traffic with a low resources usage. Apache is older than Nginx, and there are more mods available with Apache (for example apache and php can be installed automatically, when you have to configure Nginx with php manually). But Nginx is in most of case faster than Apache and require less resources. It's also a very good reverse-proxy with a full caching solution.
To give you a quick example of Nginx performance, Apache have to read a .htaccess file before displaying the content to your visitors, for each folder it will read a .htaccess file, when you can set rules globally with Nginx and it will not have to check a file each time.

SolaDrive · May 3, 2017

The one of the main reasons is that nginx as a webserver caches all static content which can greatly reduce the amount of hits and load on a server.

HostBastic · May 3, 2017

Its not faster nor better than apache, they are both different web servers, ment for different purposes. A finely tweaked apache can be fast, it will load almost as fast as Litespeed atleast from the end user side. A combination of Nginx and Apache is quite rock solid when it comes down to performance.

David Beroff · May 4, 2017

HostBastic said:
Its not faster nor better than apache, they are both different web servers, ment for different purposes.

I don't understand, if it is not better then why everyone said Nginx is better than Apache? and recommended using it.

HostBastic said:
A finely tweaked apache can be fast, it will load almost as fast as Litespeed atleast from the end user side. A combination of Nginx and Apache is quite rock solid when it comes down to performance.

What is tweak to make apache faster? Litespeed is a paid software and I don't think i can own it for websites unless i am a provider.

optimalgeek · May 5, 2017

Because it reply to the incoming request in a different form. The reply is quick in comparison to apache.

Mahfuz · May 12, 2017

Nginx is better than Apache because Nginx doesn't have extra not necessary modules like Apache have & Nginx's structure is designed to handle more concurrent connection than apache.

qbeststar · May 26, 2017

Apache start in 1995 , nginx in 2002 it's two different program , and they can be used together for optimized server, apache on 8080 port and nginx on 80 port, nginx can stop small ddos and then send request to apache and apache will start work with php.

tlchosting · May 26, 2017

I would just invest in lightspeed or cloudlinux they are in the top two for us.

Denis // trabia · Jun 15, 2017

Nginx is much better if your website gets ddosed, with Apache even a small attack is enough to put it down, one doesn't even need much traffic 10-20 Mbps is often enough just need to send certain type of requests. Because of that even anti-ddos solutions cannot protect it because they usually don't filter traffic so aggressively as to not make too many false positives. Nginx is really helpful in such situations, coupled with a good ddos protection will ensure your website runs all the time.

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