Use of NGINX Increases

in internet on 2014-04-26 16:22 (#3JA)

Once upon a time, Apache was the undisputed king of webserver software. Over the last few years a relative newcomer, NGINX , has slowly gained ground . Netcraft's monthly Web Server Survey clearly shows a healthy upward usage curve for the software.

Other recent notable events:

SPDY protocol support updated to version 3.1
OpenBSD has replaced Apache with NGINX in the base system
The LibreOffice project switched to NGINX for performance reasons
CloudFlare moved more than a thousand of the top million sites to NGINX (including the ever important cheezburger.com !)

this change isn't jinxed I hope (Score: 1)

by rocks@pipedot.org on 2014-04-27 05:13 (#16K)

what can I say, I'm a Dad, it affects my humour...

Not to minimize NGINX ... (Score: 3, Interesting)

by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-04-27 12:30 (#16P)

... but iut's "just" a forked Apache. Apache's model of thread/process-per-connection is simple and reliable, but performance slides toward terrible as the number of concurrent connections becomes vbery large.

Re: Not to minimize NGINX ... (Score: 1, Interesting)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-04-27 15:09 (#16Q)

Are you sure about that? I thought it was written separately as a reverse proxy application, at first.

Re: Not to minimize NGINX ... (Score: 2, Interesting)

by computermachine@pipedot.org on 2014-04-27 16:22 (#16W)

No, you're wrong, Nginx definitely does not spawn a thread/process for each connection.

Re: Not to minimize NGINX ... (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-04-27 18:56 (#16X)

he said:

*Apache's* model of thread/process-per-connection is simple and reliable ...

Re: Not to minimize NGINX ... (Score: 2, Interesting)

by songofthepogo@pipedot.org on 2014-04-27 22:38 (#16Y)

I know that I, apparently erroneously, inferred from his statement just prior ("a forked Apache") to mean NGINX is also multi-threaded, though he did put "just" in quotes, so perhaps I should've read something into that.

Coincidentally, I was just skimming an article on Ars about Heartbleed when I ran across the following: "Note: all my experiments and the CloudFlare challenge are targeting Nginx which is single-threaded. It is possible that for a multi-threaded wWb server, more leakage can be observed."