Nginx is a high performance webserver and an alternative to using Apache to serve your sites. If, like me, you are hosting from a VPS with minimal memory and want a lightweight server with maximum performance then nginx is for you!
Having spent a good few hours sorting this out on my new VPS I thought I’d summarize the process here with links to the most helpful posts from around the web. I wanted to be able to setup virtual hosts for both php and rails sites, without Apache being installed on the machine.
