Nginx
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| Original author(s) | Igor Sysoev |
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| Developer(s) | Nginx, Inc. |
| Initial release | 4 October 2004 |
| Stable release | 1.10.2 (18 October 2016) |
| Preview release | 1.11.8 (27 December 2016) |
| Repository | hg |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | BSD variants, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, macOS, Solaris, Windows, and other *nix flavors, |
| Type | Web server, reverse/mail proxy server |
| License | 2-clause BSD |
| Website | nginx |
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| Industry | Technology |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Headquarters | Russia |
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Key people
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Gus Robertson (CEO), Igor Sysoev (CTO) |
| Products | Web servers |
| Website | nginx |
Nginx (pronounced /ɛnʒən ɛks/ en-JIN-eks), stylized as (NGINX or nginx), is a web server, which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP cache.
Created by Igor Sysoev in 2002, it runs on Unix, Linux, BSD variants, macOS, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Windows.
Nginx is free and open source software, released under the terms of a BSD-like license. A company of the same name was founded in 2011 to provide support.
Nginx can be deployed to serve dynamic HTTP content on the network using FastCGI, SCGI handlers for scripts, WSGI application servers or Phusion Passenger modules, and it can serve as a software load balancer.
Nginx uses an asynchronous event-driven approach to handling requests. Nginx's modular event-driven architecture can provide more predictable performance under high loads.
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