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NGINX: The Faster Web Server Alternative
This formerly obscure Web server is gaining popularity with businesses.
NGINX is now the new number two Web server, largely because it promises
a fast, light, open-source alternative to Apache. Here’s why it’s
attracting so much attention.
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | January 20, 2012 0 Comments and 93 Reactions
Picking a Web server used to be easy. If you ran a Windows shop, you
used Internet Information Server (IIS); if you didn’t, you used Apache.
No fuss. No muss. Now, though, you have more Web server choices, and far
more decisions to make. One of the leading alternatives, the open-source
NGINX, is now the number two Web server in the world, according to
Netcraft, the Web server analytics company.
NGINX (pronounced “engine X”) is an open-source HTTP Web server that
also includes mail services with an Internet Message Access Protocol
(IMAP) and Post Office Protocol (POP) server. NGINX is ready to be used
as a reverse proxy, too. In this mode NGINX is used to load balance
among back-end servers, or to provide caching for a slower back-end server.
Companies like the online TV video on demand company Hulu use NGINX for
its stability and simple configuration. Other users, such as Facebook
and WordPress.com, use it because the web server’s asynchronous
architecture gives it a small memory footprint and low resource
consumption, making it ideal for handling multiple, actively changing
Web pages.
That’s a tall order. According to NGINX’s principal architect Igor
Sysoev, here’s how NGINX can support hundreds of millions of Facebook users.
Sysoev starts, “While the other web servers differentiate by having lots
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