I have been an nginx fan for nearly a year, and have yet to experience any crashing. However, I occassionally suffer nightmares with my php backend. php-fpm usually runs fine, but will crash on occasion.

Is it possible to make nginx serve up html files instead if php-fpm crashes?

I already plan to put a script to detect restart php-fpm whenever it's crashed, but the script isn't going to run continously, and it's possible that something truly horrifying happens to completely stop php-fpm until I'm able to look at it. Hopefully that never happens, but it doesn't hurt to have a safeguard in place ;-)

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