What is Nginx and why should I use it?
High level overview of why
TOPICNAME TWITTERERIC MARDEN @XENTEKNGINXFROM RUSSIA WITH LOVEMonday, September 28, 2009
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nginx is a...high performancelight weightasynchronouscross platformreverse proxyweb serverMonday, September 28, 2009
historydeveloped by Igor Sysoevstarted in 2002alternative to mod_proxycurrent version 0.7.xMonday, September 28, 2009
nginxuseage stats5.99%7%14%23%50%ApacheMicrosoftGoogleqq.comnginxMonday, September 28, 2009
featuresserve static contentcaches dynamic contentgzips everythingvirtual hostsmedia streaming (flv/mp4)ssl and other goodiesMonday, September 28, 2009
highperformancemore requestsless memorycpu friendlyaddresses C10K problemMonday, September 28, 2009
reverseproxyserve static content directlyproxy dynamic requestscache the resultsbalance the loadaccelerate ssl trafficMonday, September 28, 2009
high profilewordpress.comgithub.comhulu.comsourceforge.comxentek.netMonday, September 28, 2009
gotchasno .htaccess over ridesfcgi thread managementMonday, September 28, 2009
linkswiki.nginx.orgnginx.netsysoev.ru/nginx (russian)bit.ly/xentek-nginx-bookmarksMonday, September 28, 2009
eric mardenxentek.nethostedbyxentek.net@xentekMonday, September 28, 2009