web hosting with nginx and Amazon EC2

I am doing some test recently on using Amazon's EC2 for website hosting. The EC2 is a cloud service offered by Amazon. You have total control, ie, root access to the virtual server hosted by Amazon. Their current promotion can give you free use for the first year. That's why I decided to do a trial. Even after the 1st year, if you buy reserved instance from Amazon, it is not expensive compared to other virtual dedicated server plan offered by companies such as godaddy.

I am also using nginx as my web server. It is a very powerful and fast web server, faster and simpler than apache. I used fastcgi to handle my php script. Right now, all my websites are hosted with a new virtual dedicated server from godaddy, using nginx. I haven't yet tested perl support.

Most of my website is using wordpress framework. I've learned the basic configuration using "try_files" to replace the rewrite rules required by wordpress.

The following is an example of my configuration for a virtual host.

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  example.com;

    error_log /var/log/nginx/example.error.log error;
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/example.access.log  main;

    root   /var/www/example;
    index  index.php;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
 include    /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    }
}