The Power of Nginx Server!
NGINX (from “engine x”) is a web server, caching proxy and accelerated load distribution solution. Millions of web sites on the Internet benefit from using NGINX because of its extreme performance, scalability, reliability and security.
Features
NGINX encompasses years of experience in facilitating dynamic infrastructure growth. We believe that the agility of your web servers today is what enables the existence of your online business tomorrow.
For years NGINX has been a software-to-the-rescue for thousands of installations worldwide. But it is also a logical step towards using the next generation of Internet infrastructure software.
NGINX utilizes maximum performance out of your server hardware by efficiently enabling event notification mechanisms to handle a variety of consequent actions associated with accepting, processing and managing network connections and content retrieval and delivery.
NGINX scales very well on multi-core architectures thanks to its modular yet compact design and advanced use of modern programming interfaces. Essentially, NGINX has the lowest memory footprint possible and optimizes CPU usage while delivering maximum performance even on a very inexpensive server hardware.
NGINX supports all the major standards and protocols, providing the set of features necessary today to build a scalable web setup. Through the combination of NGINX features you can achieve extreme performance for static content and videos, conserve server and network resources by caching repetitive content, handle concurrent connections with ultimate efficiency, offload your backend infrastructure from unnecessary tasks, securely integrate your applications servers using a number of interfaces and protocols, and more.
Why Use Nginx?
There have been a couple benchmarks done that show Nginx to edge out other lightweight webservers and proxies, and to stomp out the not-so lightweight ones.
Some people say those benchmarks weren't valid because the competition wasn't tuned this way or that, etc. I tend to agree that benchmarks only tell part of the story and that there's little you can do to truly remove bias from them anyway (has anyone ever seen a benchmark that everyone agreed was fair? Me either).
Anyway, rather than post links to benchmarks for people to argue over (you can use Google to find them yourself if you like), instead, what follows is quotes from people using Nginx in the real world, under real load, serving real applications and websites.