NginX is a web server and mail proxy known for its high
performance and small resource footprint. It is used in many
places as a replacement to Apache and also as a front end server
to static content or reverse proxying. NginX is developed under
a BSD-like license by Kazakhstani developer Igor Sysoev.  NginX
comes with diverse modules that enable it to perform various
different tasks such as load balancing, URL rewriting, request
rate limiting, content compression, raw TCP proxying and
integration with tools like memcached or scripting languages
like Lua.  NginX is being used by sites like WordPress,
Sourceforge and Github and its market share has been almost
constantly raising since 2008. By Netcraft's March 2011 survey
it hosts approximately 7% of world's websites (and almost half
of the busiest sites in Russia). As of March 2013, the market
share of all sites has almost doubled (13.5%)  After nine years
of development, NginX 1.0 stable was released on April 2011.
history | show excerpt | excerpt history