best webserver for CI application

Hi Guys,

I am almost ready to deploy my CI application and I wanted some tips regarding hardware. I will probably use digitalOcean or amazon AWS.

I've heard nginx + php_fpm is faster than apache2. Does it have any impact in CI application ?

My application is not too complex, doesn't have a lot of tables and most of the queries are only inserts and select, I don't have complex sql queries. However there's a possibility that my web application be access to many people so I will have a lot of concurrent connections.

I am using mysql also....

So, what do you guys says ? Should I work with nginx or apache ?

Thanks