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

[Anurag]

Irgendwann am Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:49:48PM +0530, schrieb 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

Having used nginx for over an year, I agree, its been a breeze running
my apps behind nginx. It has served hundereds of concurrent requests
simultaneously without eating up any memory at all.

Anurag