subject: Is Your Site is Slow! switch to Nginx web server [print this page] Nginx (pronounced "engine X") is a lightweight,stability, rich feature set, simple configuration,low resource consumption and high-performance Web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy, licensed under a BSD-like license. It runs on UNIX, GNU/Linux, BSD variants, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows.Nginx now hosts nearly 6.55% (13.5M) of all domains worldwide.
* Nginx is one of a handful of servers written to address the C10K problem. Unlike traditional servers, Nginx doesn't rely on threads to handle requests. Instead it uses a much more scalable event-driven (asynchronous) architecture. This architecture uses small, but more importantly, predictable amounts of memory under load.Even if you don't expect to handle thousands of simultaneous requests, you can still benefit from Nginx's high-performance and small memory footprint. Nginx scales in all directions: from the smallest VPS all the way up to clusters of servers.
* Both [Apache and Nginx] are capable of serving a huge number of requests per second, but Apache's performance start decreasing as you add more concurrent connections whereas Nginx's performance almost doesn't drop!
* Nginx powers several high-visibility sites, such as WordPress, Hulu, Github, Ohloh, SourceForge and TorrentReactor. Nginx have many version like Development versions,Stable versions, Legacy stable versions and many more. Nginx official website: http://www.nginx.org/.
Basic HTTP features
* Handling of static files, index files, and auto-indexing
* Reverse proxy with caching
* Load balancing
* Fault tolerance
* SSL support
* FastCGI support with caching
* Name- and IP-based virtual servers
* FLV streaming
* MP4 streaming, using the MP4 streaming module
* Web page access authentication
* gzip compression
* Ability to handle more than 10000 simultaneous connections
