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All combined, this makes the name nginx super schwet!
Planet Python 2010
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You can use FastCGI server processes; you can run a conventional proxy as a reverse proxy; you can run a specialized reverse proxy that's not called nginx; you can use akamai; or you can do a thousand other things.
LXer Linux News Christian Folini 2009
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In a different part of the stack, Rambler gave us nginx, and Jan Kneschke brought us lighttpd (lighty), which now figure in the top 10 list of of all web servers deployed, with both reaching past a million servers each.
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Great tutorial on how to Setup Ruby Enterprise Edition, nginx and Passenger aka mod_rails on Ubuntu.
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Alternatively, lighttpd and nginx are very basic web servers.
Twitter: You Say Transparency, I Say Vulnerability Nik Cubrilovic 2005
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For plain static files such as images they would be on your load balancer – apache/nginx/squid
My Twitter Account Deleted, Restored Michael Arrington 2005
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Apache is like Microsoft Word – 1,000 options, but you need about 4. nginx is nowhere near as bloated. reply
Twitter: You Say Transparency, I Say Vulnerability Nik Cubrilovic 2005
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Better tools have been out and are solid (nginx, lighttpd) reply
Twitter: You Say Transparency, I Say Vulnerability Nik Cubrilovic 2005
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I switched to nginx early this year after using apache for about a decade - and love it.
Twitter: You Say Transparency, I Say Vulnerability Nik Cubrilovic 2005
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Evented I/O systems such as nginx, Thin or Node, utilise a single non-blocking thread in conjunction with an event loop.
Site Home thebeebs 2011
alexz commented on the word nginx
I've heard this pronounced as Engine X
For non-techies, it's a web page server thingy.
June 26, 2017