Should I use passenger on Apache or Nginx?

Question

What are the pros and cons between deploying passenger on top of Apache and Nginx?

Answer 1

Nginx is leaner than Apache and serves up static pages a bit quicker. However, you don't have the same market size that Apache has, therefore you will find less people that know Nginx.

Apache is more resource intensive than Nginx, but you have much better module support than Nginx. Nginx doesn't have dynamically loadable modules like Apache. You have to compile them in, so updating Nginx could be a hassle if you don't keep your source files around.

As far as Passenger goes, they are pretty much equivalent on either.