1 June 2012 0 Comments

cPnginx – cPanel Nginx Server Plugin

cPnginx is a cPanel plugin that allows you to use the faster Nginx server over cPanel’s default of Apache. Nginx is well known for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.

Nginx is unique in that it uses an asynchronous event-driven architecture. This is much more scalable than the traditional server model of using threads to handle requests. This is especially helpful in the area of memory consumption, known to be a problem with traditional server platforms like Apache.

Don’t worry though, Nginx is not experimental technology. It powers several high profile sites, including WordPress, Hulu, GithubOhlohSourceForge and TorrentReactor.

You can see the difference in load average after installing Nginx on a cPanel server below.

Features of cPnginx (Quoted from cPnginx’s web site)

High Performance: Nginx will work as a front end reverse proxy of your cPanel server along with apache. Which will increase the performace due to the software architecture.

Protection Against Malicious attacks : Nginx will only pass true http requests and protect against attacks like DDOS from your server.

100% compatible with cPanel : cPnginx is 100% compatible with cPanel. It have autoinstaller , autoupdate and uninstaller scripts which will make your job easy to integrate it.

WHM Plugin Interface : cPnginx whm interface will help you to manage your nginx server completely with in whmcs . It include Nginx configuration editor and service manager.

Chkservd Integrated : cPnginx is integrated to your cPanel Server chkservd. This will help to monitor nginx server.

GZIP compression , Save bandwidth : cPnginx is integrated with GZIP compression. You can enable and disable this feature.You can also set the compression lever from 1 to 9.

24×7 Technical support : We provide 24 hours tech support for your Nginx server.

Visit the cPnginx web site for more information.

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