Traditionally, I used to go with Apache, Mod Jk and Tomcat to host any Java web apps. But this time I was working on a small hobby project written in Groovy on Grails and had to deploy it to a VPS with a very limited resources. So I had to make the most of the server configuration that I had. So I went with a combination of Nginx and Jetty. If you’ve never heard of Nginx, it is a very simple HTTP