I switched to nginx because it was leaner than apache, and the specific use case I had for it was load balancing (and eventually proxy caching) and static conte

I switched to nginx because it was leaner than apache, and the specific use case I had for it was load balancing (and eventually proxy caching) and static content. Apache is great because of the amount of options it has, it's the swiss army knife of web servers. However, if you really don't need your web server to do a lot, I've found that other systems are a more efficient choice, especially when you're trying to squeeze a lot out of small VPS machines.