Open source Apache HTTP Server, frequently referred to as just “Apache” by those in the know, has long been a leader in the web server market. However, the popular open source server may be getting a ...

NGINX has risen to become the number two web server. It surpassed Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) long ago and has been creeping up on long-time top web server Apache. But, NGINX CEO Gus ...

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 ...

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 ...

NGNIX's slogan should borrow Avis's iconic tagline, "When you're number two, you try harder." While Apache is far more popular, 50.7 percent to NGINX's 14.4 percent - by Netcraft's web server count-- ...

The open-source software for housing Web sites is widely used by big names including Facebook and Hulu. Now it's a startup selling services, too. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Nginx, the commercial vendor behind the open-source Nginx Web server, is growing its solution portfolio this week with the release of the Nginx Plus Web server. Nginx Plus provides a bundled package ...

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I am, at best, a fly-by-night sysadmin. I grew to adult nerdhood doing tech support and later admin work in a Windows shop with a smattering of *nix, most of which was attended to by bearded elders ...

Fifteen years ago, you weren’t a participant in the digital age unless you had your own homepage. Even in the late 1990s, services abounded to make personal pages easy to build and deploy—the most ...