Hi All,
As many of you know we have been trying to deal with problems with Gateway Timeouts on the website, espessally since the slashdot/had/everything traffic for the FTDIgate. I have been working with Dave over the past few days to improive things on the server end, and I am proud to annouce that we have migrated away from reverse proxying requests to Apache, and we are now handing PHP requests direcly in Nginx.
What does this mean?
1) We can run php-fpm which performs much much faster then php-fcgi that comes with cPanel
2) Nginx is much better at handing concurrent requests and absolutly kills Apache in performance.
3) If we get slow scripts php-fpm can log the details so that I can track down what is going on.
The reason why I am announcing this is because this is a rather major change to the server's configuration and if there is any strange behaviour since the change I would like to know about it. SMF is not nice when it comes to rewrite rules, and I may have missed the odd path/pattern and I need you to let me know if I have.
I would also like some general feedback if people have noticed a general improvement in the forum performance.