The memory requirements of Apache with mod_php are one of the main reasons people hosting PHP applications use Nginx (or LigHTTPD, although enthusiasm for it ha

The memory requirements of Apache with mod_php are one of the main reasons people hosting PHP applications use Nginx (or LigHTTPD, although enthusiasm for it has died down). I imagine it is still a common setup to have Nginx in front of Apache serving static content itself and forwarding the requests for dynamically-generated content to Apache.