Entered the commercial version of the web server Nginx
Popular online public web server Nginx is on the way of development of the popular open source programs and produces a commercial version called Nginx Plus. Developers paid version Nginx to position him as a soft alternative to the ADC (Application Delivery Controllers). "functions that are implemented in Nginx Plus very close to what you can find in the hardware ADC. We are the alternative to Apache, but I think we are also an alternative and hardware controllers to deliver content, "- says Nginx CEO Gus Robertson. According to him, the software Nginx Plus Function competes with hardware solutions F5 Networks products or Citrix, which are used to speed up the loaded sites. Recall that Nginx was originally positioned itself as the solution to work with vysokotrafikovymi projects. Now, the commercial version, among other innovations have been implemented features such as load balancing, and advanced caching system. Recall that the first version of Nginx was written by Russian programmer and system administrator Igor Sysoev in 2004, and sold under the BSD-license. The author himself said that he was disappointed with the performance Apache, so I started working on an alternative. According Sysoev, Nginx can handle the load to 10,000 simultaneous connections to the same Web server. The basic version of the product supports a simple load balancing, caching, and the final reverse-proxy service. Today Nginx solutions are used by such online companies like Netflix, Hulu, Pinterest, AirBnB, WordPress.com, GitHub, SoundCloud, Zynga, Eventbrite and Zappos, and and many others. Total running Nginx now runs about 100 million websites. Sysoev Nginx Co founded the company in 2011 and became its technical director. Nginx held a round of financing and was able to raise $ 3 million from investors, the company now employs 15 people, representative of the company is based in San Francisco. Gus Robertson led Nginx in April, and before that he worked at Red Hat. decision Nginx Plus - this is the first in 10 years of commercial product Nginx. Like other opensource-solutions he comes by subscription. For the money, users get the same core Nginx, as in the open version, but in addition to it also goes the extra cover for tuning solutions, the modules to optimize performance, as well as commercial technical support. "Additional functionality extends the capabilities of Nginx in terms of load balancing, routing, requests, monitoring of servers running in mission-critical environments, "- says Andrey Alexeev, co-founder of Nginx. One of the most important innovations of the commercial version is that you can make configuration changes without stopping the running image Nginx, that is, changes made here instantly without disconnects. Alexeyev said that such an approach avoids the request queues and interruptions in service. Nginx for monitoring software uses the format JSON, allowing you to broadcast the incoming data in many commercial products, or use your own HTML / JavaScript-templates to study the data. The commercial version also comes with its own monitoring system. commercial version of the product also works with applications for performance management New Relic, supports video formats Adobe HDS and Apple HLS for broadcasting video on the web. Nginx Plus runs on a standard Linux-distributions - Amazon Linux, Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. cost commercial version starts at $ 1,350 per year per server.
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