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Re: Nginx 1.0.0 is out

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Post by codexon »

sandGorgon wrote: post #11
josephb wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great to see a project that is constantly being worked on! Averaged more than 2 releases a month last year with bugfixes and features. An awesome web server.

until very recently, the SVN repo was not made available to the public. AFAIK, there is still no bug tracker. Dont get me wrong, I have several production sites on nginx - but the development methodology makes me very nervous. Cherokee has some of the same objectives as nginx (fast and lightweight) and has a very open development process. Plus, the Cherokee Market is very cool ( http://cherokee-market.com/ ) !

I tried Cherokee 1 year ago trying to setup a wordpress blog on a vanilla Ubuntu install. It just didn't work so I gave up and haven't looked back.

Re: Nginx 1.0.0 is out

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Post by mryall »

uggedal wrote: post #26

I first heard of Nginx from a blog post[1] by Ezra Zygmuntowicz almost 5 years ago. I suspect Ezra was the primary contributor to the success of Nginx in the western world. [1]: http://brainspl.at/articles/2006/08/23/nginx-my-new-favorite...

How does your conclusion follow from the first sentence? It sounds like you're using your own individual experience to draw conclusions about how Nginx took off across the entire world, without any actual evidence to prove that the two are related.

Re: Nginx 1.0.0 is out

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Post by splitrocket »

Bravo to the whole team. Nginx is the AK-47 of webservers: when you absolutely positively have to serve every single request, accept no alternative.

Beyond that, I've found both the built in modules and the addons to be excellent quality. I've instantaneously improved performance an order of magnitude for some applications just by dropping in nginx and a little bit of configuration. I've also created a global cdn that served hundreds of millions of video streams a month on a few commodity machines with nginx, all without a hitch.

Truly excellent software.

Re: Nginx 1.0.0 is out

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Post by jolan »

I was hoping 1.0 would include support for dynamic modules. It's the only thing nginx is missing. I have to compile my own nginx everywhere to get all the modules I need (which isn't hard, just a tad annoying to manage).

Re: Nginx 1.0.0 is out

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Post by justincormack »

SwellJoe wrote: post #57
justincormack wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Websockets uses the http 1.1 upgrade header to transform an http request into a websocket. Nginx proxy module only supports http 1.0 basically. So no proxying to a websocket server yet.

For what it's worth, proxying HTTP/1.1 is tremendously complex, and WebSockets are an interesting and somewhat intimidating pile of additional trouble. It's been years since I've worked on a proxy (I was a Squid developer many years ago), but since my current project will be dealing with WebSockets, it triggered an instant "I wonder how that's going to work through proxies" response, and an ingrained moment of my hea…

Interesting thread. Yes nginx already selectively supports 1.1 features but not everything. And yes I think the current security issues are the same ones, so maybe this will never have to be solved by proxies in this form, I havent seen what the current proposals to fix the websocket issues are...

Re: Nginx 1.0.0 is out

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Post by kapso »

Nginx is a thing of beauty, definitely scores over Apache. - ease of use - simplified configuration, I dont need a 500pg manual to get a grasp of nginx - speed, speed, speed - what else do you want :)

Re: Nginx 1.0.0 is out

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Post by getsat »

ra wrote: post #10
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.

And a lot less memory usage!

Re: Nginx 1.0.0 is out

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Post by experimental »

sandGorgon wrote: post #11
josephb wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great to see a project that is constantly being worked on! Averaged more than 2 releases a month last year with bugfixes and features. An awesome web server.

until very recently, the SVN repo was not made available to the public. AFAIK, there is still no bug tracker. Dont get me wrong, I have several production sites on nginx - but the development methodology makes me very nervous. Cherokee has some of the same objectives as nginx (fast and lightweight) and has a very open development process. Plus, the Cherokee Market is very cool ( http://cherokee-market.com/ ) !

Linus Torvalds said in 2001 he didn't use a bug tracker for the Linux kernel so I'm not sure if I should be worried.

Apache, nginx and Cherokee also work on Haiku as well as a bunch of other native ones (e.g. PoorMan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PoorMan and RobinHood). nginx fits well with it because Haiku performs well under heavy load for responsiveness, is lightweight and fast.

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