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What is the reason why the Nginx server has attracted so much attention? aiming at this problem, this article introduces the corresponding analysis and answer in detail, hoping to help more partners who want to solve this problem to find a more simple and easy way.

Nginx servers always appear in our server applications. It is still unfamiliar to many people, so let's learn the solutions to the problems in detail. Nginx server is a high-performance HTTP and reverse proxy server software, 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.

Nginx server is a compact and efficient web server software under Linux. Developer Igor Sysoev is from Russia. Nginx's words have actually been running on some large Russian websites for many years and are quite stable. They have only recently become famous in the United States.

Another popular web server software is Lighttpd, which is well known because it runs in the background of Youtube. Lighttpd is characterized by its ability to do Flash streaming and support for fastcgi, which speeds up programs such as Ruby on Rails, which is much better than Apache.

But the nginx server is more stable than Lighttpd, no less functional than Lighttpd, has almost everything, and is a little more complete than Lighttpd's support for URL rewrite.

Both nginx and lighttpd are much better than Apache for providing static files, mainly because they take up a small amount of memory. Apache and these two small server software are really behemoths.

Why choose Nginx server

The Nginx server is a high-performance Web and reverse proxy server with many very superior features:

As a Web server: it uses fewer resources, supports more concurrent connections and embodies higher efficiency than Apache,Nginx, which makes Nginx especially popular among web hosting providers. Can support up to 50000 concurrent connections response, thank Nginx for choosing epoll and kqueue for us as the development model.

As a load balancing server: Nginx can not only directly support Rails and PHP internally, but also support external services as a HTTP proxy server. Nginx server 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 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.

The Nginx server installation is very simple, the configuration file is very simple (and supports perl syntax), and the server with very little Bugs: Nginx is very easy to start, and can run almost continuously for 7: 24, even if it runs for several months without reboot. You can also upgrade the software version with uninterrupted service.

This is the answer to the question about why the Nginx server has attracted so much attention. I hope the above content can be of some help to you. If you still have a lot of doubts to be solved, you can follow the industry information channel for more related knowledge.

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