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).

NGNIX's slogan should borrow Avis's iconic tagline, "When you're number two, you try harder." While Apache is far more popular, 50.7 percent to NGINX's 14.4 percent - by Netcraft's web server count-- ...

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 ...

Open source Apache HTTP Server, frequently referred to as just “Apache” by those in the know, has long been a leader in the web server market. However, the popular open source server may be getting a ...

As part of an effort to improve the performance of Web applications, NGINX continues to blur the line between where a Web server, also known as an application delivery controller, ends and an ...

Hivetext Technologies announced this week that its Java-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Jelastic will be supporting the Nginx Web server. Jelastic is actually a cloud hosting platform designed for ...

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 ...

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 ...