NGINX
Blogs20122012-05-23
NGINX(Engine-X)
According to wiki, nginx is an open source Web server and a reverse proxy server for HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and IMAP protocols, with a strong focus on high concurrency, performance and low memory usage.
From Nginx website, it give more detail features:
NGINX is a high performance web server, caching proxy and a Layer 7 load balancing solution. Millions of web sites on the Internet benefit from using NGINX because of its extreme performance, scalability, reliability, flexibility and security.
- HTTP and HTTPS (TLS/SSL/SNI)
- Ultra-fast web server for static and dynamic content
- High concurrency HTTP proxy with load balancing and caching
- FastCGI, WSGI, SCGI, Memcached/NoSQL
- Connection and request throttling
- Comprehensive access control
- Compression and content filters
- Non-stop live binary upgrades and configuration
- Custom logging
- Embedded scripting
- Virtual hosts
- HTTP media streaming
- Mail proxy for SMTP/IMAP/POP3 with TLS
- Simple, logical, scalable configuration
- Runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX and Windows
