history of Nginx

History of nginx:

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:21:13PM +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote: > The next week I will present a talk about my WSGI module for Nginx at > Pycon Due - http://www.pycon.it/ (an Italian conference dedicated to > Python), and I would like to talk about the history of Nginx. > > Igor, can you please provide some informations like: > - when did you started Nginx > - why did you started Nginx > - a rationale about the choice of the architecture In spring 2001 I had written Apache mod_accel that is enhanced replacement of mod_proxy. But it was clear that Apache has low scalability. I had read http://kegel.com/c10k.html , had investigated existent servers httpd, boa, etc. and had decided that I need something like these servers, but with SSI, proxy, and cache support. Also it should has flexible configuration like Apache and supports online upgrade and quick log rotation. I planed ...

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