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Why is Nginx popular?
Nginx has grown in popularity since its release due to its light-weight resource utilization and its ability to scale easily on minimal hardware. Nginx excels at serving static content quickly and is designed to pass dynamic requests off to other software that is better suited for those purposes.
How is Nginx different from Apache?
Apache is an open-source HTTP server whereas Nginx is an open-source, high-performance asynchronous web server and reverse proxy server. Apache HTTP Server has a multi-threaded architecture which lacks scalability. Whereas Nginx follows an asynchronous event-driven approach to handle multiple client requests.
Is Nginx a competitive edge over Apache?
In some instances, Nginx has a competitive edge in terms of performance. We’ll dive into Apache first since it was released first. After Tim Berners-Lee’s CERN httpd and NCSA HTTPd in the first couple of years of the internet, Apache – first released in 1995 – quickly conquered the market and became the world’s most popular web server.
How many websites use nginx?
Nginx is used by 34.1\% of all the websites whose web server we know. Nginx is used by 34.8\% of all the websites whose web server we know and that rank in the top 1,000,000. This diagram shows the historical trend in the percentage of websites using the selected technologies.
Why is Apache still in that market position?
Nowadays, it still is in that market position but mostly for legacy reasons. Apache is being developed and maintained by the Apache Foundation, under the Apache license. There are two different stories on how Apache got its name.
How do I set up Nginx and Apache on a server?
Set different ports for each server. That means you can leave port 80 for Nginx and assign Apache a different port. Install and configure Nginx that will serve as the front end of your site. Once it has downloaded, configure the virtual host to run on the front end.