nginx
More info
- Creator
- Igor Sysoev
- Released
- Owner
- F5 Inc.
- Type
- Web server / reverse proxy
- License
- BSD-2-Clause
- Website
- nginx.org
- Source
- github.com/nginx/nginx
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
Modern web server and reverse proxy — faster than Apache at many concurrent connections.
Async event loop instead of one thread per connection. Runs as a static server, reverse proxy, load balancer, TLS terminator. Dominates high-traffic hosting; Cloudflare, Netflix, Dropbox.