Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Why NginX ? Fast, Secure and Efficient Web Server

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Nginx is a fast and efficient web server. It can be configured to serve out files or be a reverse proxy depending on your application. What makes this web server different from Apache, Lighttpd or thttpd is the overall efficiency of the daemon, the number of configuration options and how easy it is to setup.
Nginx ("engine x") is a high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy server. Nginx was written by Igor Sysoev for rambler.ru, Russia's second-most visited website, where it has been running in production for over two and a half years. Igor has released the source code under a BSD-like license. Although still in beta, Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. Nginx


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