Q:

Is Nginx okay for my ecommerce portal

First of all i am not a system administer, but need help. I am about to set up my webserver on a linux VPS hosting for an ecommerce portal with expected traffic of 10000 concurrent hits.
I need to know that is NGINX alone okay for all my needs. My application would be in dynamic contents like php. On the other hand i want the website to load speed, may be as i searched google, i found a server caching will be okay. Please let me know how to do that. Will i be able to install all applications or i need a professional help ? I am in tight budget.
Thank you!

A:

10k concurrent sessions on a VPS sounds a bit risky. I would rent a dedicated server for this.
Wether you can use nginx solely alone depends on your software. Some depends on apache modules (like htaccess support), where they have to use nginx in front and apache as a backend.
I use nginx+PFP-FPM+APC with great success, but as I said - it won't suit everyone.
Perhaps you should install VMWare Workstation and try this out first.

