Answer: So with PHP and nginx I'm assuming you're talking about using PHP-FPM with FastCGI. What PHP-FPM does is maintain a pool of workers that are tasked with executing a PHP script and returning the result. Each request it loads up the PHP files and compiles them, though some of that may be ...
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