Nginx

Nginx  develops and maintains NGINX open source distribution, and offers commercial subscriptions and professional services for NGINX. NGINX supports more than 95 mln of web-sites ll over the world.NGINX project started in 2002 and grew dynamically over the past 10 years thanks to the vision of Igor Sysoev, and the enthusiasm and support of its loyal community of users and developers. It is now the second most popular open source web server worldwide, according to the latest Netcraft survey.

NGINX is used by over 20% of the top 100,000 busiest sites, including Netflix, Facebook, Zappos, Groupon, LivingSocial, Hulu, TechCrunch, Dropbox and WordPress, as well as by almost 13% of the entire Internet web sites population

Quick Facts:

• Project started in 2002, company since 2011
• Run by 15% of Internet domains, 95 million sites
• Run by 20% of world’s 10.000 most busiest sites
  
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