Nginx
Reverse Proxy & GatewaysHigh-performance web server and reverse proxy
Replaces Apache, IIS
Self-hosted apps by nginx
3 self-hosted projects maintained by nginx on GitHub — combined community: 39,443 GitHub stars.
Portfolio at a glance
The 3 projects span 2 categories: reverse proxy & gateways and monitoring & status. Nginx is the flagship at 31,884 stars — High-performance web server and reverse proxy. 2 of 3 are written primarily in C. The oldest dates from 2004 and the newest from 2018. 3 publish a Docker deployment path. Heads-up: NGINX Unit is archived upstream and no longer maintained.
| Projects | 3 |
|---|---|
| Combined stars | 39,443 |
| Hosted on | GitHub |
| Languages | C (2), Go (1) |
| Licenses | Apache-2.0 (2), BSD-2-Clause (1) |
| Setup difficulty | Easy (1), Medium (2) |
| Min. RAM range | 64–256 MB |
| First releases | 2004–2018 |