nginx

I recently migrated this site over to nginx as I have seen that many large enterprises are using it and I wanted to learn it better so I can in turn help others.  This server doesn’t have the bells in whistles that Apache has but it is extremely fast and as a proxy is highly effective. Per the wikipedia this server has the following features:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx

Basic HTTP features

* Handling of static files, index files and auto-indexing
* Reverse proxy with caching
* Load balancing
* fault tolerance
* SSL support
* FastCGI support, with caching, although it doesn’t have CGI support.
* Name- and IP-based virtual servers
* FLV streaming
* MP4 streaming, using the MP4 streaming module
* Web page access authentication
* gzip compression

Mail proxy features

* SMTP, POP3 and IMAP proxy
* STARTTLS support
* SSL support

Installation of the webserver was really easy and didn’t take much time at all. I will be writing a howto on how to compile it and get everything working soon. Stay tuned :)