Muhammad Ahsan
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NGINX Web Server
What is Web Server?
What is Web Server?
Different Web Servers
- Apache
- Monkey HTTP
- Apache Tomcat
- NGINX
- Lighttpd
- Hiawatha
Why NGINX?
Nginx is one of the most popular webserver in the world and is responsible for hosting some of the largest and heighest-trrafic sites on the internet. It is more resource-friendly than Apache.
- It has become a very popular web server among administrators due to its light resource utilization and its ability to scale easily.
- NGINX is released under a BSD-like license, and can not only be deployed as web server , but also as proxy server or load-balancer. You can find more information on NGINX community site.
High Profile Coustomers of NGINX?
- GitLab
- IBM
- PayPal
- Oracle
- Microsoft
- Apple
- Yahoo!
- Ubber
- Vodafones
- Intel
- eBay
Lets Install & Configure NGINX
Command : sudo apt install nginx
Default file: /var/www/html/index.nginx-debian.html
Config File: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf