[Fsf-friends] Nginx for heavily loaded web-servers

[ck raju]

.."nginx continues to grow strongly, increasing its market share by 1
percentage point. It gains around 2.5 million sites this month, mostly
due to more activity seen by the survey on blogging provider NetEase.
nginx is also used by Wordpress.com, where Netcraft saw 180,000 more
active blogs this month..."
Story at http://news.netcraft.com/

"What is nginx?
Nginx [engine x] — it’s HTTP-server and IMAP/POP3-proxy server written
by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft in May 2009 nginx served or
proxied 3.25% busiest sites. Nginx has been running for more than four
years on many heavily loaded Russian sites like vkontakte.ru or
rambler.ru. I think it’s enough. You can find a lot of theoretical
information below in useful links. .."
http://www.linuxspace.org/archives/1576

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CK Raju