Hi all,

Got the usual LAMP setup currently, trying to decide whether to swap out Apache and fully replace with Nginx, or to stick Nginx in front of Apache just to serve static content and let Apache handle the PHP stuff.

Is Nginx+PHP good with potentially many (hundreds or thousands) or simultaneous users accessing a lightweight PHP script (does a couple of MySQL reads and maybe a write or two)? (users all using the site simultaneously but not necessarily that many actually accessing the PHP script simultaneously). I'm seeing conflicting answers to this question from online research.

Also, re: PHP specifically, looks like php-fpm has been absorbed into latest PHP 5.4.x so I don't need to explicitly install php-fpm - is that correct? (I have 5.4.1 installed).

Many thanks,
Alex