Nginx is an emerging Web server (it claims to power around 12% of the website) and is known for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.
Personally I’m using it from 2010 and so far so good, no particular problems, it does perfectly his work and is frequently updated by the developers, I’m really happy of how is performing on my VPS and in this time I’ve learnt some small tricks and tips that perhaps could save you some time in the future.
1) Enable phpmyadmin with https protocol on a non standard port on Nginx
It could be useful to have phpmyadmin installed to manage your DB, but it’s a good idea to have a dedicated Virtualhost on a dedicated (non standard port)…