With a local web server set up, you can view your own files in a web browser, usually by visiting http://localhost/.

When it launched, NGINX quickly attracted about a 100 customers, and as 2015 came to a close, it had in excess of 500 customers paying for its two flavors of support. The NGINX web server is free and ...

Nginx (pronounced "engine-ex") is a lightweight Web server with a reputation for speed, speed, speed. It differs from Apache in a fundamental way—Apache is a process- and thread-driven ...

When you configure your server with multiple tenants, you create one or more new Nginx server blocks in the nginx.conf file for each endpoint or domain you’ll be responding to.

Image: Colin Barker. Web server company NGINX styles itself as "the secret heart of the modern web" and claims to run 60 percent of the busiest websites in the world.

Nginx remains the top Web server among the 1,000 most trafficked websites, used by 49.2 percent of them, according to research site W3Techs. Apache is second, at 26.2 percent.

That’s just a fraction of what Nginx is doing. The server technology powers the websites of some of the most well-known brands online. Think the busiest site on the planet: Facebook.

According to Netcraft, the leading Web server analytics company, NGINX, with its over 40-million Web domains and 8.5% of all Web domains, is catching up with the big two.