It used to be easy for Web server administrators. If you ran a Windows shop, you used Internet Information Server (IIS), if you didn't, you used Apache. Now, though, you have more Web server choices ...

NGINX has risen to become the number two web server. It surpassed Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) long ago and has been creeping up on long-time top web server Apache. But, NGINX CEO Gus ...

I am, at best, a fly-by-night sysadmin. I grew to adult nerdhood doing tech support and later admin work in a Windows shop with a smattering of *nix, most of which was attended to by bearded elders ...

Some parts of the platform stack are so ubiquitous that they are almost transparent. Commercialized web servers were the first part of the Internet to make the jump from service providers to ...

Open source web server Nginx has overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS) as the second most commonly used platform across all active websites, however its market share remains a long ...

A few years ago, Apache and Micrsoft IIS dominated the web server market. A quick look at Netcraft metrics from 2007 shows Apache hosting over 50% of domains and Microsoft in a relatively close second ...

How to use NGINX as a reverse proxy for Apache Your email has been sent Jack Wallen walks you through the process of setting up NGINX such that it will direct incoming port 80 traffic to Apache, ...

I want 2 web servers apache (domain: domain1.com, port: 80) and nginx (port:1234, domain2.com) running side by side. How to serve domain2.com without specifying port number? The URL on the users ...

Nginx is releasing a commercial edition of its namesake open source Web server software, called Nginx Plus, which it will market as a software alternative to application delivery controllers (ADCs).

With financial backing from the likes of Michael Dell and other venture capitalists, open source upstart Nginx has edged out Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server) to hold the title of ...