Apache isn't that bad. I haven't used nginx, so I can't speak to it, but the reason I haven't is that I can push 500+ Mbps out of a single box running Apache w

Apache isn't that bad. I haven't used nginx, so I can't speak to it, but the reason I haven't is that I can push 500+ Mbps out of a single box running Apache with just some basic configs. mod_php may be slow, but Apache itself is plenty fast.