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Nginx, the web server competing with Apache2, has been purchased for $670 million by a competitor, F5 Networks. F5 Networks is an application services and application delivery networking company. A little less than a year ago, Nginx raised $43 million to fund expansion. Netcraft's February 2019 web server survey shows Nginx hovering at around 20% of all active sites and around a quarter of the busiest sites.
F5 said that it will be merging its own operations with those of NGINX, with current NGINX CEO Gus Robertson and founders Igor Syosev and Maxim Konovalov all joining the company.
More details can be found in the F5 Press Release and in NGINX CEO Gus Robertson's blog which also provides a history of how NGINX came to be.
[Disclaimer: SoylentNews uses NGINX.]
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday March 12 2019, @02:24PM (11 children)
Is there anyone around who can explain why that choice was made? Was there some specific benefit over Apache (or any other contenders) that made the decision fall that way?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @02:33PM
NGINX is russian, so it is obviously better.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:04PM (6 children)
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(Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:12PM (5 children)
Reverse proxy/load balancer, yep. Less overhead and better performance than Apache if it only needs to do those jobs.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:55PM (4 children)
Apache Traffic Server (ex Yahoo Traffic Server), may be an option.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by mrpg on Tuesday March 12 2019, @04:46PM (3 children)
"Apache Traffic Server™ software is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 compliant caching proxy server. Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! donated it to the Apache Foundation, and currently used by several major CDNs and content owners."
http://trafficserver.apache.org/ [apache.org]
Has anybody here used it? Comments? Opinions?
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Shire on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:16PM
I use it extensively as a reverse proxy. It's very simple to deal with and very flexible very reliable and very fast. There may well be better alternatives out there but for the networks I support it's worked well.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by ilsa on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:23PM (1 child)
A better question would be, if you've already got a perfectly good and working nginx config, why would one want to switch over to this traffic server? Does it do something that nginx can't, or can it do the same things better?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 12 2019, @11:59PM
Spoken like a proper admin. If/when they screw Nginx up bad enough that it's worth the trouble of setting up a new reverse proxy, we'll find another solution. Until then, it ain't broke and I ain't fixing it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @05:40PM
Why do you feel so strongly about nginx?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @06:59PM
i use nginx over apache b/c i like the config better and i believe it to be more secure and better written. i also believe it to be faster for many things, but it's been a while since i even thought about this. i made this decision years ago and haven't had cause to look back.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @09:57PM
AFAIK you can't run a Soylent instance without Apache. The code is too dependent on modperl.