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[[Wikipedia:nginx|nginx]] (pronounced "engine X"), is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev in 2005. According to Netcraft's [http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/04/20/april-2015-web-server-survey.html April 2015 Web Server Survey], nginx now hosts 14.48% of all domains worldwide, while [[Apache]] hosts about 38.39%. nginx is now well known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.
[[Wikipedia:nginx|nginx]] (pronounced "engine X"), is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev in 2005. According to Netcraft's [http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/04/20/april-2015-web-server-survey.html April 2015 Web Server Survey], nginx now hosts 14.48% of all domains worldwide, while [[Apache]] hosts about 38.39%. nginx is now well known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.
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Nginx is often used together with a scripting language such as PHP and database such as MySQL. This combination is often referred to as a LEMP stack (Linux, EngineX, MySQL, PHP).
== Installation ==
== Installation ==