Nginx: From Russia With Love

What is Nginx and why should I use it?

High level overview of why

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1. TOPIC NAME TWITTER ERIC MARDEN @XENTEK NGINX FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE Monday, September 28, 2009
2. nginx is a... high performance light weight asynchronous cross platform reverse proxy web server Monday, September 28, 2009
3. history developed by Igor Sysoev started in 2002 alternative to mod_proxy current version 0.7.x Monday, September 28, 2009
4. nginx useage stats 5.99% 7% 14% 23% 50% Apache Microsoft Google qq.com nginx Monday, September 28, 2009
5. features serve static content caches dynamic content gzips everything virtual hosts media streaming (flv/mp4) ssl and other goodies Monday, September 28, 2009
6. high performance more requests less memory cpu friendly addresses C10K problem Monday, September 28, 2009
7. reverse proxy serve static content directly proxy dynamic requests cache the results balance the load accelerate ssl traffic Monday, September 28, 2009
8. high profile wordpress.com github.com hulu.com sourceforge.com xentek.net Monday, September 28, 2009
9. gotchas no .htaccess over rides fcgi thread management Monday, September 28, 2009
10. links wiki.nginx.org nginx.net sysoev.ru/nginx (russian) bit.ly/xentek-nginx-bookmarks Monday, September 28, 2009
11. eric marden xentek.net hostedbyxentek.net @xentek Monday, September 28, 2009