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 ...

Biggest slice of the top 1,000 websites now uses Nginx over Apache's or Microsoft's Web servers, says W3Techs survey -- but Apache is still tops overall W3Techs, which supplies research information ...

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 ...

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 ...

The next version of Ubuntu Server is expected to include Nginx in the main archive, meaning it will "sit alongside Apache in 14.04 with full security updates over the life of the release," Canonical ...

Choosing a Web server is not a zero-sum game, and many workloads favor a combination of the two leading names I happened to read Netcraft’s May 2014 Web server market share report the other day. We ...

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 ...

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