Re: Nginx for heavily loaded web-servers
Anurag <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:32:39 +0530
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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 _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list [email protected] http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends