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Features

Web content Proxy Dynamic content FastCGI SCGI

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History

Websites Rambler BV Capital Runa Capital MSD Capital

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NGINX Unit

Go PHP Python Java Node.js

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Developers: NGINX Community · F5, Inc.
License: nginx: BSD-2-Clause License NGINX Plus: Proprietary software
Operating system: BSD variants, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, macOS, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and other *nix flavors
Original author: Igor Sysoev
Release: 4 October 2004; 21 years ago (2004-10-04)
Repository: github.com/nginx/nginx

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Overview

Popularity

Apache Apache HTTP Server
Netcraft
Internet Information Services
Docker Docker (software)
OpenBSD

Features

Web content
Proxy Proxy server
Dynamic content Dynamic web page
FastCGI
SCGI
Scripts Scripting language
WSGI Web Server Gateway Interface
Phusion Passenger
Load balancing Load balancing (computing)
Asynchronous Asynchronous system
Event-driven Event (computing)
Event-driven architecture
More than 10,000 simultaneous connections C10k problem
Memory footprint
HTTP keep-alive connections HTTP persistent connection
TLS/SSL Transport Layer Security
SNI Server Name Indication
OCSP stapling
OpenSSL
UWSGI
GRPC
IPv6
WebSockets WebSocket
HTTP/1.1 Upgrade (101 Switching Protocols) HTTP/1.1 Upgrade header
HTTP/2
HTTP/3
Url rewriting Rewrite engine
Redirection URL redirection
ACME protocol Automatic Certificate Management Environment
STARTTLS

Nginx in comparison to Apache

.htaccess
Recompiling Compiler
Statically linked Statically linked library
Dynamic module loading Dynamic linking

NGINX Unit

Go Go (programming language)
PHP
Python Python (programming language)
Java Java (programming language)
Node.js
Perl
Ruby Ruby (programming language)

History

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Nginx

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related to Popularity · 16

Nginx → Apache, April, As, Cloudflare, Cloudflare Server, Docker, In OpenBSD, March, Microsoft Internet Information Services, Netcraft, Netcraft's, November, OpenBSD, OpenBSD's, Some, W3Tech's

related to NGINX Unit · 12

Nginx → By, Go, Inc, Java, NGINX Unit, Node, October, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, The

related to 2010s · 9

Nginx → BV Capital, In October, Inc, July, Maxim Konovalov, Michael Dell's, MSD Capital, Runa Capital, Sysoev

related to 2020s · 7

Nginx → Angie, F5, Igor Sysoev, In, Inc, January, On

related to External links · 6

Nginx → GitHub, GitHubAngie, GitHubfreenginx, GitHubTengine, Mirror, Official

related to nginx in comparison to Apache · 6

Nginx → Apache, February, Formerly, However, This, While

related to 2000s · 5

Nginx → C10k, Igor Sysoev, Originally, Rambler, September

related to Features · 4

Nginx → FastCGI, Phusion Passenger, SCGI, WSGI

see also · 3

Nginx → Comparison, Free, List

Developers · 2

Nginx → F5, Inc., NGINX Community

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inc server web apache software f5 sysoev support million load proxy igor plus released company features also mail version performance

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Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Nginx	Developers	NGINX Community	1.00	infobox
Nginx	Developers	F5, Inc.	1.00	infobox
Nginx	License	nginx: BSD-2-Clause License NGINX Plus: Proprietary software	1.00	infobox
Nginx	Operating system	BSD variants, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Linux, macOS, Solaris, Microsoft Windows, and other *nix flavors	1.00	infobox
Nginx	Original author	Igor Sysoev	1.00	infobox
Nginx	Release	4 October 2004; 21 years ago (2004-10-04)	1.00	infobox
Nginx	Repository	github.com/nginx/nginx	1.00	infobox
Nginx	Stable release	1.31.4 / 19 August 2026; 4 days ago (19 August 2026)	1.00	infobox
Nginx	Type	Web server, reverse/mail proxy server	1.00	infobox
Nginx	Website	nginx.org	1.00	infobox
Nginx	Written in	C	1.00	infobox
advanced load balancing	instance of	and a module-based architecture with both core and third-party module support.The paid Plus product includes additional features	0.80	text

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