Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Usage

The reason why Nginx is so far ahead of Apache performance wise, is because it was written for precisely this purpose. Originally, Igor Sysoev created Nginx to empower an extremely high-traffic Russian website (https://www.rambler.ru/), which received hundreds of millions of requests every day. This was probably not part of the original plans of the Apache designers when they initiated the project back in the early 90s. More generally, it is said that Nginx was designed to address the C10k problem. This expression designates a common observation according to which the current state of computer technology and network scalability only allows a computer (from the mainstream industry) to maintain up to 10,000 simultaneous network connections, ...