• A web server which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy, and HTTP cache. nginx was first released in 2004 by Igor Sysoev. As of April 2025, W3Tech’s web server count of all websites ranked nginx first with 33.8%, followed by Apache at 26.4% and Cloudflare at 23.4%. ← Wikipedia ↑ nginx.org

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