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posted by martyb on Tuesday March 12 2019, @02:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the it-was-good-while-it-lasted dept.

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.]


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by mrpg on Tuesday March 12 2019, @04:46PM (3 children)

    by mrpg (5708) Subscriber Badge <reversethis-{gro ... yos} {ta} {gprm}> on Tuesday March 12 2019, @04:46PM (#813346) Homepage

    "Apache Traffic Serverâ„¢ 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?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Shire on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:16PM

    by The Shire (5824) on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:16PM (#813473)

    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)

    by ilsa (6082) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 12 2019, @09:23PM (#813479)

    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?