Announcing NGINX Plus R18 h4 { font-weight:bolder; font-size:110%; } h5 { font-weight:bolder; font-size:110%; } We are pleased to announce that NGINX Plus Release 18 (R18) is now available. NGINX Plus is the only all-in-one load balancer, content cache, web server, and API gateway. Based on NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus includes exclusive enhanced features and award‑winning support. R18 simplifies configuration workflows for DevOps and enhances the security and reliability of your applications at scale. More than 87% of websites now use SSL/TLS to encrypt communications over the Internet, up from 66% just three years ago. End-to-end encryption is now the default deployment pattern for websites and applications, and the explosion in SSL/TLS certificates means some companies are managing many thousands of certificates in production environments. This calls for a more flexible approach to deploying and configuring certificates. New in this release is support for [ more… ]