Nginx is an open-source and free-to-use web server. In reality, it is not your average web server, one can use it as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy, and HTTP cache Nginx web server was ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of setting up NGINX such that it will direct incoming port 80 traffic to Apache, listening on port 8080. NGINX is an incredibly fast web server. Apache is an ...

Most computers come with their own web server and, if they don’t, it’s easy to install one. Setting it up can take a bit of work, but it’s well worth it in my opinion. In fact, I don’t consider my ...

If you’re serving up websites from your Linux data center and using NGINX, you need to enable SSL for a more secure solution. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) has become a necessity for web servers. Why?

We use Nginx in our hosting cluster where we have many tenants/vhosts. Although I’m not sure it was necessary to choose Nginx over Apache, we have been able to squeeze a lot of performance from our ...