Using NGINX and NGINX Plus as a Web Server
Using NGINX and NGINX Plus as a Web Server 2019 update: NGINX has now passed Apache to become the most popular web server for the top 1,000, 10,000, 100,000 and 1 Million busiest websites in the world. Why is NGINX seeing such wide and increasing adoption and why should you consider using NGINX or NGINX Plus as your web server? Why NGINX? NGINX is much more than just a web server. Traditionally, the web server and the application delivery controller (ADC) or reverse‑proxy load balancer have been deployed as separate components of a web application delivery solution. But creating a scalable and high‑performance web server or ADC requires many of the same techniques. In many environments, one reason to deploy an ADC is to mitigate performance problems with the web server. By combining the ADC and web server into a single tool, NGINX [ more… ]
