Sigh. FOSS and NGINX as an example of FOSS have given us so much. If direct to syslog logging is what you're after, why not use Apache? As many people have poin

Sigh. FOSS and NGINX as an example of FOSS have given us so much. If direct to syslog logging is what you're after, why not use Apache? As many people have pointed out before, Apache can certainly be hold a candle to NGINX if you put the time into tuning it. If you're expecting Black Friday traffic of this magnitude, and you haven't spent the last two months planning and load testing for it, you are either lazy or underpaid. If the first, okay, I get why you don't want to roll your own RPM. If the second, that's just what this business can expect out of their setup. No one is going to dump NGINX over this. If it is this mission critical to your business, pony up and pay for NGINX. > We’re using php-fpm anyway; the performance difference between nginx and httpd in this scenario is negligible. So why are we even having this discussion? Honestly if you're experiencing that much traffic and PHP performance is hindering you, you should consider some sort of Varnish full-page caching anyhow. Disk writes, as you note, are not your primary issue, and certainly is no reason to dump NGINX.