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Originally Posted by Brujah
Why offload to nginx instead of another install of apache? Is it because ... nginx is better for that job?
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haha, you're trying (in both senses)!
sure, I could put up another install of apache stripped bare on the same server, but have you ever tried to maintain two apache installs?
nginx has the advantage because out of the box it is a bare-minimum httpd engine, that you build up.
Apache comes out of the box quite loaded, that I end up stripping down.
For a server that simply disses up jpegs, loading up nginx was a no-brainer.
As ever, YMMV. If your server is happy running nginx for your sites, who the hell am I to tell you otherwise?