Irgendwann am Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:49:48PM +0530, schrieb ck raju:
.."nginx continues to grow strongly, increasing its market share by 1 percentage point. It gains around 2.5 million sites this month, mostly due to more activity seen by the survey on blogging provider NetEase. nginx is also used by Wordpress.com, where Netcraft saw 180,000 more active blogs this month..." Story at http://news.netcraft.com/
"What is nginx? Nginx [engine x] — it’s HTTP-server and IMAP/POP3-proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft in May 2009 nginx served or proxied 3.25% busiest sites. Nginx has been running for more than four years on many heavily loaded Russian sites like vkontakte.ru or rambler.ru. I think it’s enough. You can find a lot of theoretical information below in useful links. .." http://www.linuxspace.org/archives/1576
Having used nginx for over an year, I agree, its been a breeze running my apps behind nginx. It has served hundereds of concurrent requests simultaneously without eating up any memory at all.
Anurag