Now the World’s #1 Web Server, NGINX Looks Forward to an Even Brighter Future Last month, NGINX passed a major milestone. W3Techs announced that after many years of steady growth in market share, NGINX is now the most popular web server in the world, edging out Apache HTTP Server. Of course we’re thrilled to be recognized for our years of innovation and hard work, but even more than that we’re profoundly grateful to you, the members of the NGINX community, who’ve brought us to this milestone by trusting us to secure and deliver your websites and apps. Though W3Techs measures NGINX usage specifically for web serving, over NGINX’s nearly 20-year history we’ve added many more capabilities – reverse proxying, load balancing, traffic shaping, caching, and security controls, among others – and you’ve embraced them enthusiastically. It’s fair to say NGINX has become [ more… ]