LAMP Stack, with Apache LEMP Stack, with nginx
Apache: -Has been available for so many years (since 1995), a lot of users and modules (mostly open-source) written to expand its functionality; -Process/thread-oriented approach — slows down under heavy load, need to spawn new processes and consuming more RAM, also creates new threads which have to compete for CPU and RAM resources; -Limit has to be set to ensure that resources are not overloaded, when the limit is reached, additional connections will be refused; -Limiting factor in tuning Apache: memory and potential to dead-locked threads contending for the same CPU and memory.
nginx: -Open source web server application written to address performance and scalability issues associated with Apache; -Event-driven, asynchronous and non-blocking approach, doesn’t create new processes for each web request; -Setting number of worker processes, and each worker can handle thousands of concurrent connections; -Modules are included at compile time, have internal PHP code compiler (no need for PHP module) -htaccess not supported
https://winginx.com/en/htaccess https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/likeapache-htaccess/
To conclude, nginx is faster and able to handle much higher load compared to Apache using the same set of hardware.
src - https://simplercloud.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/what-is-the-difference-between-lamp-stack-and-lemp-stack/
How To Install Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP stack) in Ubuntu 16.04
https://www.pipiscrew.com/2017/01/install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-on-ubuntu-16-04/
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