Get Ready for PHP and FastCGI
Your server is shaping up nicely with Nginx installed – now time to fold PHP and FastCGI Process Manager in the mix so that you can serve PHP pages efficiently.
Check Your Nginx Light
Now its time to turn to configuring your web server, Nginx before tackling PHP, FastCGI and MySQL. I went through many, many iterations of these steps looking for a setup that was repeatable and sane.
The Life of Slice
Linode uses the Xen hypervisor (now purchased by Citrix) to field multiple virtual machine instances on hardware – and thats what you’re actually working on – a ‘slice’ of a dedicated server.
Technology Choices
As a former technology evangelist – tearing technology apart and putting it back together in ways I can understand – and repeat – is one of my favorite things to do.