NginX VS Apache
Posted By : Oodles Admin | 09-Jun-2015
| NGIN X | Apache |
| NginX is event driven web server | Apache is process/thread driven web server |
| Doesn't support Dynamic Loading and Unloading | Load/Unload dynamically |
| URI interpretation | URI/File system interpretation |
| Doesn't create a new process for each request | Creates new process for each request |
| Underlying hardware doesn't effect the performance | Performace rely on underlying hardware |
| Very less memory consumption | More memory consumption |
| Nginx have less components to add more features | Apache has tons of features and provides lot more functionality than Nginx. |
| Nginx do not support Operating Systems like OpenVMS and IBMi | But Apache supports much wider range of Operating Systems. |
| Lighweight and easy to configure | For new comers, Apache is large, complex, and sometimes a bit complicated to configure |
| NginX lacks in providing more documentation as its new | Apache can be configured easily as it comes with lot of configuration features to cover wide range of requirements |
| It is faster in serving Static Content | .htaccess and administrative console are added feature |
| Uses distributed Configuration | Uses centralized configuration |
| Request in NginX uses asynchronous, non-blocking, event-driven connection handling algorithm | Requests in Apache are handled through Multi processing modules(MPM) |
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