[wolco]

We went from php_mod to php-fpm but we started moving back to php_mod after php 7 came out showing the benchmarks.

[larzang]

That's true for us as well with our legacy applications.

Our newer applications are using litespeed instead, and we've found it to be significantly better. You basically get the features of a nginx + apache + varnish stack in a single easily managed service and with better performance too.