Nginx 1.0.0 is out

I hadn't even considered that it wasn't at a 1.0.0 release yet! Aside from version numbers being a bit meaningless, Nginx has been an absolutely rock-solid workhorse for me for about the last 5 years.

One of my favourite pieces of software, and the things you can do with Lua as a module make it an extremely flexible intelligent proxying service.

Re: Nginx 1.0.0 is out

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Post by pilif » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 10:47 AM UTC

For me and this big PHP application of ours, switching from just Apache to nginx in front of Apache for PHP execution and serving the rest directly with nginx was the one optimization that brought the best bang for the buck over all the years.

Memory usage went down drastically and response times got much better.

Additionally, I personally much prefer the syntax of the nginx configuration file (though this really is a matter of taste) and it generally feels like much more of the really cool stuff is built right in (I'm looking at you, memcached module).

As such, I love nginx and I would recommend it to anybody asking me what lightweight web server to use.

Note though that the performance improvements I listed above are not as such specific to nginx: You could probably achieve the same result with any other web server that isn't also your application server. What is specific to nginx is its stability, its nice (for my taste) configuration language and the availability of really interesting modules right in the core.

Congratulations to everybody for reaching 1.0. I'm looking forward to many happy years with your awesome tool in my utility belt.

Re: Nginx 1.0.0 is out

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Post by rimantas » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 10:48 AM UTC

Fun bit: on the http://sysoev.ru/ the news starts with "Поехали!" (Let's go! / Let's ride!)—Yuri Gagarin quote from the launch of the first manned space flight fifty years ago.

Re: Nginx 1.0.0 is out

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Post by zenspunk » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 10:58 AM UTC

Reaching version 1 is meaningless. Their versioning, like many other projects, is completely botched.

"Oh look, we're getting to the high 0.9's, better call the next one 1.0.0!"

Re: Nginx 1.0.0 is out

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Post by jacques_chester » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 10:59 AM UTC

I've been very pleased with nginx. I switched from lighttpd and previously from apache.

Lighty is about as fast and memory-friendly as nginx, but I found nginx to be more stable when dealing with FastCGI.

Re: Nginx 1.0.0 is out

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Post by ra » Tue, Apr 12, 2011, 11:01 AM UTC

bjpirt wrote: post #5

I hadn't even considered that it wasn't at a 1.0.0 release yet! Aside from version numbers being a bit meaningless, Nginx has been an absolutely rock-solid workhorse for me for about the last 5 years. One of my favourite pieces of software, and the things you can do with Lua as a module make it an extremely flexible intelligent proxying service.

Same for me. Nginx does everything Apache does, only with a little less clunk.