NginX is a web server and mail proxy known for its high performance and small resource footprint. It is used in many places as a replacement to apache and also as a front end server to static content or reverse proxying. NginX is developed under a BSD-like license by kazakhstani developer Igor Sysoev.
NginX counts with diverse modules that enables it to perform various different tasks such as load balancing, url rewriting, request rate limiting, content compression and integration with tools like memcached.
NginX is used by sites like Wordpress, Sourceforge and Github, and by Netcraft's march 2011 survey it hosts approximately 7% of world's websites (and almost half of the busiest sites on Russia).
After nine years of development, NginX 1.0 stable was released on april 2011.
