what are some good alternatives to nginx?
depending on what you use nginx for, check out openbsd.
Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Throwing out a question to the room: if the worst happens and Nginx gets butchered, would it be so bad to go back to using Apache? I've never used it really, everything I've done has been Nginx, but is there some technical reason why Apache wouldn't be a fine fallback option for an open-source server?
If you like nginx, why would you fall back to apache instead of forking it, or using one of the many existing forks? That's one of the best parts of OSS code - You don't just have to follow them to the next version they release. (One example is Tengine - It is really nicely setup and a lot of people prefer it to core nginx already)
Tengine looks pretty interesting!
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#53what are some good alternatives to nginx?
Obviously Apache, IIS https://caddyserver.com/ https://www.lighttpd.net/ https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/
Probably not that last one...
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#54what are some good alternatives to nginx?
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#55I'm nervous about what this means for the future of nginx's built in load balancing. That's been an important and rock-solid part of my infrastructure.
luckily not needed: there is h2o
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#56what are some good alternatives to nginx?
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's way more than that. Yeah the base OS on the machine is Linux, but there's a lot of extra stuff they do all the way down to the hardware layer.
So what does the likes of AWS (for example) use for load balancing for data coming into its various private clouds... f5s?
This article provides some info: https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-secret-wea...
Re: Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
#58I guess that signals it's time for nginx users to check out possible alternatives - just in case, if things turn out for the worse. I can recommend having a look at https://varnish-cache.org/ - while its performance might not be 100% up to par with nginx in some (very, very high-end) scenarios, it has many other fortes that nginx (at least in its FOSS release version; I've never used nginx plus) just cannot match in…
Idunno, it seems fine to me. There are plenty of HTTP daemons that get the job done though, and if you have exacting requirements, there's nothing particularly difficult about writing your own specialized one (generally you don't have to write every feature of NGINX).
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#59I think this will all be alright. The open source product will continue to support most use cases the same as it always has. Customers with additional needs or edge cases will opt-in for support. The byproduct of that relationship will be to ascertain which users are growing to a point where nginx may not be able to support more mission critical needs, and that's where F5's commercial products can come in.
Of course, this also means that you could expect any sort of future development that overlaps with their higher end products to vanish.
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#60So...what is the future of enterprise open source? Is there a future for enterprise open source? If you start a company and open source your core/clients, your product becomes part of AWS, and AWS runs you into the ground. If you mix in proprietary licenses to protect yourself, AWS forks your core, adds in open-source licensed clients, then runs you into the ground (and you lose open-source contributors/supporters as…
You could AGPL and sell proprietary exceptions. Amazon won't touch AGPL code.