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Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition
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Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

by Martin Bjerretoft Fjordvald, Nedelcu
February 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
9h 40m
English
Packt Publishing
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Flexibility and community

This is another criterion for establishing an honest comparison between two applications of the likes of Nginx and Apache. In today's information technology industry, you cannot simply take into account the raw functionality of a server application without considering questions such as:

  • Where am I going to get help if I get stuck?
  • Am I going to find documentation about specific features offered by either server?
  • Are there going to be more modules in the future?
  • Is the project still active and being updated by its developers?
  • Has the security of either server been tested by a large enough number of administrators?

These questions generally answer themselves when the server gets popular enough. In the case of Apache, ...

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ISBN: 9781788623551