NGINX has risen to become the number two web server. It surpassed Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) long ago and has been creeping up on long-time top web server Apache. But, NGINX CEO Gus ...

Open source Apache HTTP Server, frequently referred to as just “Apache” by those in the know, has long been a leader in the web server market. However, the popular open source server may be getting a ...

Choosing a Web server is not a zero-sum game, and many workloads favor a combination of the two leading names I happened to read Netcraft’s May 2014 Web server market share report the other day. We ...

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Nginx is a versatile and high-performance server known for its capabilities in web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, and media streaming. Its asynchronous, event-driven architecture ...

Nginx Plus, the commercial edition of the open source Web server that’s elbowed out Apache HTTPD on many top-traffic sites, unveiled its fourth major version today. Officially named Nginx Plus r4, ...

Given the way applications need to dynamically scale, load balancers have become a standard component of most IT environments. But when a developer initially builds their application, they often don’t ...

I am, at best, a fly-by-night sysadmin. I grew to adult nerdhood doing tech support and later admin work in a Windows shop with a smattering of *nix, most of which was attended to by bearded elders ...