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You've  gotten your system ready  to install PHP-FPM. Now this is the most complicated and quite possibly the hardest piece to the setup. Here is the overwhelming and complicated command set that you will need to enter in order to get NGINX and PHP-FPM installed on your Debian System. apt-get -t squeeze-backports install nginx-extras; apt-get install php5 php5-fpm php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php5-imagick php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-mysql php5-pspell php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php-pear libssh2-php php5-cli At this time I create a system user for NGINX. adduser --system --no-create-home nginx This command simply creates a system user with no home directory. We will use this User later in our setup. WOW, that was tough! I know you may be tired, so this is a good time to take a break. Well now that we have installing NGINX out of the way, we can proceed to setting up NGINX and PHP-FPM to work on your system. If you are coming f...

You've  gotten your system ready  to install PHP-FPM. Now this is the most complicated and quite possibly the hardest piece to the setup. Here is the overwhelming and complicated command set that you will need to enter in order to get NGINX and PHP-FPM installed on your Debian System. apt-get -t squeeze-backports install nginx-extras; apt-get install php5 php5-fpm php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php5-imagick php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-mysql php5-pspell php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl php-pear libssh2-php php5-cli At this time I create a system user for NGINX. adduser --system --no-create-home nginx This command simply creates a system user with no home directory. We will use this User later in our setup. WOW, that was tough! I know you may be tired, so this is a good time to take a break.

Your web applications need to scale, especially during demanding traffic events. Nginx is a high-performance web server and reverse proxy that can help you do that. Today, we are extending our Managed Cloud  Fanatical Support to include the installation, troubleshooting, patching and performance tuning of Nginx. Specifics of what is supported can be found in the Knowledge Center article about  Cloud Servers with Managed Service Level – Spheres of Support . At its heart, Nginx is a web server, a very fast web server! The key to Nginx’s speed is its asynchronous or event driven model for serving out objects where each request and response is seen as an individual event that is then forgotten until the next event. By comparison, Apache uses a threaded model where each request ties up resources until the full request is made, responded to and the connection is terminated. There are three common use-cases where Nginx really stands out, and your Managed Cloud Support Team ca...