Nginx definition

Wikipedia definition

See also

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx

Nginx (/ˌɛndʒɪnˈɛks/ EN-jin-EKS) (stylized as NGINX or nginx) is a web server which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache.

The software was created by Igor Sysoev and first publicly released in 2004. A company of the same name was founded in 2011 to provide support and Nginx plus paid software.

Nginx is free and open-source software, released under the terms of a BSD-like license.

A large fraction of web servers use NGINX, often as a load balancer.

In March 2019, the Nginx company was acquired by F5 Networks for $670 million.