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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.
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Tuesday March 12 2019, @03:32PM (2 children)
> I'm still perturbed that mysql is still in such wide use, given that mariadb is a plug in replacement, and doesn't have the same level of corporate baggage.
I admit running mysql on some servers I admin, and I somewhat have the authority to change that. Normally I'm the first to make that kind of change- certainly have with my home systems. It's a combination of factors like priorities, "it ain't broke so don't fix it", mariadb isn't showing up in the many CentOS repositories I've enabled, and many other priorities in my life.
I did try nginx but it was a lot of work getting it to run WordPress and I really didn't see any advantages. I did not run many load tests because at that point A) it was more work and potential for problems than I could justify, and B) we don't typically have heavy loads, and C) Apache (frankly) gives me good info messages if I mess up a configuration.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @04:55PM
Wise.
I will admit to up/side-grading a cloned non-critical IDS test database system from MySQL to MariaDB just to see what would happen and then getting bitten by some weirdness when comparing the test results, nothing major, but still..and as I've not got the time to debug the issues (or, frankly, the inclination nowadays to fuck around with database code), I let the other existing MySQL databases be, all new ones are MariaDB.
Ditto, sort of (minus the Wordpress), despite the mutterings of some of my collegues to the contrary, I dont think i can currently call the work I put into my little nginx project a complete waste of my time as I still see an advantage in using nginx, but due to lack of time it's another back burner project for that mythical day when I've nothing else to do...Ha.Fucking.Ha..
But I think when I do get back to it, I'll work with an older copy of nginx, not that I'm a cynical fucker, but looking at their effusive gushings about this deal the old 'bad vibe' meter started spiking into the red...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @06:55PM
"nginx -t" will test your config and tell you exactly what you screwed up.