Nginx is a high-performance HTTP and reverse proxy server and a IMAP/POP3/SMTP proxy server. Nginx was developed by Igor Sysoev, the second rambler.ru site for Russian traffic, which has run over 2.5 at the site. Igor releases the source code in the form of a BSD-like license. Nginx has been known for its stability, rich feature sets, sample configuration files, and low system resource consumption.
Nginx can be compiled and run on most Unix like OS and has a Windows portable version. At present, the development version of the Nginx 0.9.x, stable version of 0.8.x, the history of the stable version of 0.7.x, it is recommended to use the 0.8 series as a production version. Nginx's source code uses 2-clause bsd-like license.
Nginx is a very high performance Web and reverse proxy server with many excellent features:
In the case of high connection concurrency, Nginx is http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/14417.html "> Apache server is a good alternative: Nginx is one of the most frequently chosen software platforms for owners of virtual hosting businesses in the United States. To support the response of up to 50,000 concurrent connections, thank Nginx for choosing Epoll and Kqueue as the development model.
Nginx as a load balancing server: Nginx can directly support Rails and PHP programs externally, and can support external services as an HTTP proxy server. Nginx use C to write, whether it is the system resource cost or CPU efficiency is much better than Perlbal.
Nginx 0.9.7 Update Description:
*) Feature:now keepalive 50x15 May is closed premature, if there are no free worker 50x15.
* feature:the "rotate" parameter of the "image_filter" directive.
* Bugfix:a case a backend in "Fastcgi_pass", "Scgi_pass", or "uwsgi_pass" directives be given by expression and refers to a Tabbed upstream.
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