Nginx
High-performance web server and reverse proxy
Nginx is a high-performance web server, reverse proxy, and load balancer that powers a large share of the internet. It is the foundation for many self-hosted proxy setups.
Key features
- Fast reverse proxy
- HTTP and stream load balancing
- Low memory footprint
- Massive deployment base
Strengths
- Released under the BSD-2-Clause license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 31.4k GitHub stars
- Written in C
Nginx replaces
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