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Apache is the most popular Web server and one of the most successful open-source projects of all time. Since April 1996, Apache has served more Web sites than any other Web server. Many of the world's ...

Nginx is releasing a commercial edition of its namesake open source Web server software, called Nginx Plus, which it will market as a software alternative to application delivery controllers (ADCs).

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 ...

Web server company NGINX styles itself as "the secret heart of the modern web" and claims to run 60 percent of the busiest websites in the world. CEO Gus Robertson is an Australian native with big ...

If you're looking to gain a bit more performance out of your NGINX web server, Jack Wallen shows you how with the help of gzip compression. NGINX is an outstanding, open source web server. It’s easy ...

It used to be easy for Web server administrators. If you ran a Windows shop, you used Internet Information Server (IIS), if you didn't, you used Apache. Now, though, you have more Web server choices ...

Nginx is upgrading the commercially supported version of its popular Web server, fitting it with new HTTP/2, authentication, and caching capabilities. Nginx Plus Release 8, being unveiled today, backs ...

The web server market has been stable for ages. Year after year, open source darling Apache HTTP server takes first place by an impressive margin and Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS) ...