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by raptorhunter22 1534 days ago
Nginx is great for handling multiple simultaneous users without using a lot of server resources. Apache is extremely fast for processing PHP efficiently. Nginx is not great for processing PHP (in fact, Nginx cannot process PHP at all). Apache is not that efficient for handling multiple simultaneous users.

So, to get the best of the both worlds, I will show you how to set up Nginx as reverse proxy cache for Apache and additionally, will optimize it for WordPress.