Use Nginx to speed up Website access

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This article describes how to install a high-performance HTTP server, Nginx, on a Linux system and use Nginx to speed up Website access without changing the original website structure.

Nginx Introduction

Nginx ("engine x") is a high-performance HTTP and reverse proxy server and an IMAP/POP3/SMTP proxy server. Nginx was developed by the Rambler.ru site with the highest access volume in Russia as Igor Sysoev. It has been running on this site for more than two and a half years. Igor publishes source code in the form of a class BSD license. Despite being a beta version, Nginx is well known for its stability, rich feature sets, sample configuration files, and low system resource consumption.

According to the latest NetCraft survey (March June), more than 2 million of hosts have used Nginx, and this number exceeds the other lightweight HTTP server lighttpd, ranking fourth, and growing rapidly. The first few reports of this report are as follows:

Product	Website count
Apache	84,309,103
IIS	60,987,087
Google GFE	10,465,178
Unknown	4,903,174
Nginx	2,125,160
Oversee	1,953,848
Lighttpd	1,532,952

For more details about this survey report, see the following link:

Http://survey.netcraft.com/Reports/200806/

Compare the number of websites using Nginx and lighttpd in recent months.

Figure 1. Comparison of the number of websites using Nginx and lighttpd in recent months

 

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