nginx
Sign in to saveNginx (pronounced "engine x" , stylized as NGINX or nginx) is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. The software was created by Russian developer Igor Sysoev and publicly released in 2004. Nginx is free and open-source software, released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. A large fraction of web servers use Nginx, often as a load balancer.
Key facts
- Software.name
- NGINX
- Software.logo
- Nginx logo.svg
- Software.author
- Igor Sysoev
- Software.developer
- F5
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.operating system
- BSD variants, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, macOS, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and other *nix flavors
- Software.genre
- Web server, reverse/mail proxy server
- Software.license
- Nginx: BSD-2-Clause License Nginx Plus: Proprietary software
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Popularity
- Features
- HTTP proxy and Web server features
- Mail proxy features
- Nginx in comparison to Apache
- Nginx Unit
- History
- 2000s
- 2010s
- 2020s
- See also
- References
- External links
Nginx (pronounced "engine x" , stylized as NGINX or nginx) is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. The software was created by Russian developer Igor Sysoev and publicly released in 2004. Nginx is free and open-source software, released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. A large fraction of web servers use Nginx, often as a load balancer.
A company of the same name was founded in 2011 to provide support and NGINX Plus paid software. In March 2019, the company was acquired by F5 for $670 million.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “nginx” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.