Saturday, June 18, 2011

Nginx - high performance web server

Nginx™ (pronounced “engine x”), a high performance web server and a reverse proxy server. nginx project started in 2002 and became public in 2004. According to Netcraft over 6% of top million sites run nginx


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx
http://nginx.net/

I see a number of sites serving streaming Flash Video using this web server.

I wonder how it compaires with AfterBurner or thhtpd.

Apache vs Nginx : Web Server Performance Deathmatch

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