As we all know, cPanel doesn’t fully support Nginx yet, it will be ready in the future as it is one of the most requested features from their users. However, in the meantime, if you want to have Nginx on cPanel you will have to do it using 3rd party modules.
Nginx is almost 2x fast as Apache while serving requests, it handles static requests in a excellent way, and even dynamic requests while integrated with php-fpm daemon.
cPanel is one of the most widely used control panels in the web hosting industry, and having Nginx installed into cPanel can give you tremendous boost in speed and server performance as it consumes less resources than Apache.
Why should I switch from Apache to Nginx in my cPanel server?
cPanel uses the Apache HTTPD web server since forever. And as we all know, Apache is slow.
When traffic starts rising on your server, websites become popular, or you just have lot of websites inside a cPanel server, then your web performance starts going down. Apache is useful if you have a small number of websites, however when you have hundreds of websites, it is not the ideal http server to be run inside your cPanel box (unless you have lot of money to upgarde your hardware resources).
Nginx comes to help your cPanel server. This doesn’t mean you have to replace your Apache totally, you can even use Nginx as a front end proxy to help Apache handling the static resources of your websites.
This is one of the most classical ways to use Nginx on cPanel, as a proxy. Nginx will serve all the static stuff like js, css, png, gif, jpeg images, and you can still use old Apache for PHP dynamic content.
This kind of setup will drop your RAM and CPU usage a lot, and your sites will run faster, and we all know Google love fast websites
