Anyone who pays any attention to Web servers knows that Apache is the most popular Web server. What only professional Web developers and administrators know is that Nginix, a high-performance, ...

It used to be easy for Web server administrators. If you ran a Windows shop, you used Internet Information Server (IIS), if you didn't, you used Apache. Now, though, you have more Web server choices ...

A few years ago, Apache and Micrsoft IIS dominated the web server market. A quick look at Netcraft metrics from 2007 shows Apache hosting over 50% of domains and Microsoft in a relatively close second ...

Some parts of the platform stack are so ubiquitous that they are almost transparent. Commercialized web servers were the first part of the Internet to make the jump from service providers to ...

Nginx is releasing a commercial edition of its namesake open source Web server software, called Nginx Plus, which it will market as a software alternative to application delivery controllers (ADCs).

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Nginx is making its commercially supported enterprise Web server more extensible, providing interoperability for add-on modules that have previously been used only with the open source version of the ...

Welcome, dear readers, to the final piece in our long-running "Web Served" series. Starting last November, Ars has been helping to shed light on the fun world of DIY Web hosting—we started with ...

Nginx is an open-source and free-to-use web server. In reality, it is not your average web server, one can use it as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy, and HTTP cache Nginx web server was ...

If you're looking to gain a bit more performance out of your NGINX web server, Jack Wallen shows you how with the help of gzip compression. NGINX is an outstanding, open source web server. It’s easy ...