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Nginx (pronounced "engine x" [8] / ˌ ɛ n dʒ ɪ n ˈ ɛ k s / EN-jin-EKS, stylized as NGINX or nginx) is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. The software was created by Russian developer Igor Sysoev and publicly released in 2004. [9]
Using the reverse proxy of a third party (e.g., Cloudflare, Imperva) places the entire triad of confidentiality, integrity and availability in the hands of the third party who operates the proxy. If a reverse proxy is fronting many different domains, its outage (e.g., by a misconfiguration or DDoS attack) could bring down all fronted domains. [7]
A reverse proxy (or surrogate) is a proxy server that appears to clients to be an ordinary server. Reverse proxies forward requests to one or more ordinary servers that handle the request. The response from the original server is returned as if it came directly from the proxy server, leaving the client with no knowledge of the original server ...
In October 2004, he released the Nginx Web server, reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP cache software and founded Nginx, Inc. Sysoev was born in 1970 and grew up in Almaty, Kazakhstan, at the time called Alma-Ata in the Kazakh SSR. Sysoev graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University in 1994. Since graduation, he has lived in Moscow.
Nginx – Lightweight, high performance web server/reverse proxy and e-mail (IMAP/POP3) proxy; NetKernel – Internet application server; Qcodo – PHP5 framework; Squid – Web proxy cache; thttpd – designed for simplicity, small memory footprint, and speed; Vaadin – Fast, Java-based framework for creating web applications
Nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server; OpenBSD's httpd (since OpenBSD 5.6) See also ... Example of an HTTPd: httpd - Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol Server
It is a lightweight, [5] high-performance [6] web server/reverse proxy licensed under the GNU General Public License. Its goal is to be fast and fully functional yet still light. Major features of Cherokee include a graphical administration interface named cherokee-admin, and a modular light-weight design.
The LAMP stack with Squid as web cache.. Squid is a caching and forwarding HTTP web proxy.It has a wide variety of uses, including speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, caching World Wide Web (WWW), Domain Name System (DNS), and other network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, and aiding security by filtering traffic.