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What are the advantages and basic knowledge of Nginx Web server? in view of this problem, this article introduces the corresponding analysis and solution in detail, hoping to help more partners who want to solve this problem to find a more simple and feasible method.

When we are constantly using the Nginx Web server, we need to constantly master the relevant knowledge. Nginx Web server is a high-performance HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as an IMAP/POP3/SMTP proxy server.

Nginx was developed by Igor Sysoev for the second most visited Rambler.ru site in Russia, where it has been running for more than two and a half years. Igor publishes the source code as a BSD-like license. Although it is still a beta, Nginx is already known for its stability, rich feature set, sample configuration files, and low system resource consumption.

Because most of the Nginx documentation is in Russian, the Chinese wiki of the Nginx Web server is designed to help users in the Chinese-speaking world install, configure, and exchange experience with Nginx. Most of the documentation comes from the work of Aleksandar Lazic. Please ask Cliff Wells directly for questions about this wiki itself.

Nginx can be compiled and run on most Unix like OS, and there is a portable version of Windows. The current development version of Nginx is 0.7.x, the stable version is 0.6.x, and the historical stable version is 0.5.x. It is recommended to use the 0.6 series as the production version. The source code for Nginx uses 2-clause BSD-like license.

Advantages of Nginx Web server

Nginx is a powerful high-performance Web and reverse proxy server with many excellent features:

In the case of high connection concurrency, Nginx is a good alternative to Apache servers: Nginx is one of the software platforms often chosen by web hosting bosses in the United States. Can support up to 50000 concurrent connections response, thank Nginx for choosing epoll and kqueue for us as the development model.

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Nginx as a load balancing server: Nginx can not only directly support Rails and PHP programs to serve externally, but also support external services as HTTP proxy servers. Nginx is written in C, both the system resource overhead and the efficiency of CPU are much better than Perlbal.

As a mail proxy server: Nginx Web server is also an excellent mail proxy server (one of the earliest purposes of developing this product is also as a mail proxy server), Last.fm describes the successful and wonderful experience.

Nginx Web server is a very simple to install, the configuration file is very simple (can also support perl syntax), very little Bugs server: Nginx is very easy to start, and can almost do 7 hours 24 non-stop operation, even if it runs for several months without reboot. You can also upgrade the software version without interruption of service.

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