It releases its source code under a BSD-like license and is known for its stability, rich feature set, sample configuration files, and low system resource consumption. On June 1, 2011, nginx 1.0.4 was released.
Nginx is a lightweight web server/reverse proxy server and email (IMAP/POP3) proxy server, and is released under a BSD-like protocol. Its characteristics are that it occupies less memory and has strong concurrency capabilities. In fact, nginx's concurrency capabilities do perform better among web servers of the same type.
Course Introduction:Nginx ("engine x") is a high-performance HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as an IMAP/POP3/SMTP server. Nginx was developed by Igor Sysoev for Russia's second most visited Rambler.ru site. The first public version 0.1.0 was released on October 4, 2004. It releases its source code under a BSD-like license and is known for its stability, rich feature set, sample configuration files, and low system resource consumption. On June 1, 2011, nginx 1.0.4 was released.
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