The idea isn't about nginx itself, but of using php in an fpm mode along with eaccelerator. In an fpm more php runs as a standalone FastCGI-server, outside of

The idea isn't about nginx itself, but of using php in an fpm mode along with eaccelerator. In an fpm more php runs as a standalone FastCGI-server, outside of apache or other web server. It could run on the same machine with a web server (in that case you should configure them to use unix-sockets, which is even better) or on a separate one. You will save a lot of memory, and will gain even more speed due to php script's caching.