Rate apache config + fastcgi + php-fpm + opcache, who tried it?

Question

PHP

who tried apache config + fastcgi + php-fpm + opcache, share your experience - what about performance?
When php-fpm is installed on Apache.

Answer 1

Let's put everything in its place.
nginx+apache two-level configuration:
nginx+php-fpm is a must have but one-level config is great speed, except for a separate balancer for statics. There are a number of advantages regarding FastCGI, for example, there is no hemorrhoids with 503 because it is a module of nginx itself and the latter easily sees the dead process. It is required to rewrite all .htaccess in servers nginx
nginx as frontend and apache+fast-CGI +opcache as backend
Practically classic, but opcache is recommended to be used with php5.5, below goes as an extension.

Answer 2

What's the point of php-fpm? If php as an apache module will work faster
when with nginx, then it’s understandable, but here is some kind of idiocy