On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Friesen dan_the_man@telus.net wrote:
No PHP benefit either way. There's no reason to go to nginx for performance, but there's also no reason not to use it. Personally, I've got a preference for nginx, so I'm using it myself.
The only reason Apache is still being used, AFAIK, is because it's what Wikimedia has always used. With no gain in switching, you may as well stick with whatever you have to avoid transition costs. lighttpd didn't even exist in 2001, let alone nginx.
Actually, is there any reason lighttpd is used for image serving? Just because it was trendy when the image servers got set up, or because it actually has concrete advantages of some kind?