Nginx

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a web server. It can act as a reverse proxy server for HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocols, as well as a load balancer and an HTTP cache - wikipedia

# Features

Nginx can be deployed to serve dynamic HTTP content on the network using FastCGI, SCGI handlers for scripts (but not CGI), WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) application servers or Phusion Passenger modules, and it can serve as a software load balancer - wikipedia

- > 10,000 simultaneous connections - Low memory footprint. - Handling of static files - Index files and auto-indexing - Reverse proxy with caching - Load balancing with in-band health checks - Fault-tolerant design - Transport Layer Security|TLS/SSL - FastCGI - Server Side Includes - IP address-based geolocation - User tracking - WebDAV - XSLT data processing - Embedded Perl scripting

# History

Created by Igor Sysoev in 2002, Nginx runs on Unix, Linux, BSD variants, OS X, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Windows. Released under the terms of a BSD-like license, Nginx is free and open source software.

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# Popularity

According to Netcraft's October 2015 Web Server Survey, Nginx was found to be the second most widely used web server across all "active" sites (15.33% of surveyed sites) and for the top million busiest sites (23.66% of surveyed sites).