nginx vs apache

I’m old school. Always used apache.

nginx seems to be gathering a lot of support.

It definitely looks to be faster / better for static but static can be done via CDN making that largely moot.

But looking around the web, advice seems to be that if you are running dozens of blogs that sticking with apache is still better because the php-fpm being run as cgi has to be loaded with each request, while if you are running just a blog or two, nginx can be better especially if you use a cache to file plugin.

I’m kind of curious what opinions are.

There is now an event driven plugin for Apache, I have zero experience with it because I quite frankly don’t need it, that allegedly closes the gap between the two where nginx is better. But I don’t know if it does what people claim as well as people claim.

Any opinions on this issue?