After months of discussion on the virtues of cloud servers and Nginx, I was recently tasked with moving all the Nooku sites over to Rackspace Cloud. With that in mind, I have documented the basic install process for the benefit of all.

For our install, we will be using Ubuntu 10.04 and installing/configuring:

  • PHP 5.3.x (usingĀ fpm-php which is included)
  • MySQL 5.x
  • Nginx 8.x
In this tutorial I will take you through the install and the outline how I have set things up to gain maximum performance.