Nginx 1.7.9, anything to fascinate about?

Nginx 1.7.9, anything to fascinate about?

 Nginx 1.7.9, the native version has been released on 23.12.2014. You can get it from here, as it has all the latest bug fixes supported. As you are interested in the difference between this one and the version you use – Nginx 1.6.2, you can check this changelog with all the changes ever made listed.

 The Windows version of Nginx uses the native Win32 API and not the Cygwin built inside emulation layer. Only this type of connection processing method is used at the moment, so scalability and excellent performance should not be expected.

 On the other hand, a great number of web sites on the Internet rely on Nginx because of its extreme reliability and flexibility, so it is basically your decision, depending on which way you want to develop.

  Regards,

  Mathew

Nginx 1.7.9, anything to fascinate about?

NGINX or Nginx is a popular open-source project originally written by a Russian engineer named Igor Sysoev. It is a high-performance, highly-scalable, and highly available web server, reverse proxy server, and web accelerator that mix the features of an HTTP load balancer, content cache, and more. “NGINX” is pronounced as “Engine-Ex”. It emerged as the third most well-known web server behind Microsoft’s IIS and Apache Web server.

At the moment, it powers well-known websites like Pinterest, Netflix, Hulu, WordPress, Cloudflare, Zappos, and Zynga. Aside from offering HTTP server capabilities, Nginx can also work as a POP3/IMAP mail proxy server and also function as a load balancer and HTTP cache server. Igor Sysoev started the project in 2002 and in 2004 he made it public.

Since then, Nginx has become a de-facto standard for high-performance and highly-scalable websites. Nginx works on OS X, Linux, Solaris, BSD, AIX, and HP-UX variants.