April 08, 2013 — CEO Joins As NGINX Grows In Web Server Market Share | NGINX News and Press
Nginx, Inc., the high performance web company, today announced Gus Robertson as CEO. Amid a year of record growth for the company, Robertson will leverage his expertise in managing and growing technology companies to help Nginx develop a broader portfolio of commercial offerings, while also building strategic industry relationships and reinforcing support of the NGINX open source community. Read more »
February 19, 2013 — NGINX Announces Support for WebSocket Protocol | NGINX News and Press
Nginx, Inc., the high performance web company, today announced support for the WebSocket Protocol in the latest iteration of NGINX version 1.3. Available immediately, the functionality of the WebSocket Protocol is accessible within the core product. WebSocket provides exciting capabilities for web developers and service providers offering platforms as a service (PaaS), who are challenged by an ever increasing demand for high performance and low latency communications. Read more »
January 09, 2013 — dotMobi, Nginx, Inc. Press Release | NGINX News and Press
Nginx Inc., provider of the high-performance NGINX Web server, and mobile Web technology specialist dotMobi today announced the immediate availability of a device detection module for NGINX using dotMobi’s DeviceAtlas® solution. Read more »
January 07, 2013 — Netcraft | Netcraft News
Both within the million busiest sites and on the internet as a whole, nginx has continued its ascendance, increasing its market share to 12.77% and 12.64% respectively. [..] Amazon now hosts 9.3 million hostnames using their cloud computing platforms — gaining more than one million sites this month, and more than doubling within the past year. The most used web server at Amazon is nginx, being used on more than 44% of all hostnames, many of which are being served by Heroku, a Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider. Read more »
June 20, 2012 — Nginx, Inc. Press Release | NGINX News and Press
New version of the popular NGINX web server to support OCSP-stapling. Today GlobalSign, DigiCert, Comodo and Nginx, Inc. announced a joint effort and a sponsored development contract, to enhance the NGINX open source Web server to support OCSP-stapling. Read more »
June 18, 2012 — Nginx, Inc. Press Release | NGINX News and Press
Nginx, Inc., the commercial arm of Open source Web server developer NGINX, today announced that it helped develop the technology for Open Connect, the Netflix content delivery initiative. Read more »
April 24, 2012 — Nginx, Inc. Press Release | NGINX News and Press
Open source developer Nginx, Inc. today announced the cutting-edge version of its widely deployed web server is now available for download. This milestone release version 1.2.0 is a culmination of NGINX’s annual development and extensive quality assurance cycle, led by the core engineering team and by the web server’s enthusiastic user community. NGINX 1.2.0 is the latest production-quality release of the stable branch, incorporating over 40 new features and over 100 bug fixes introduced since April 2011. Read more »
April 04 20, 2012 — by Joe Brockmeier | ReadWrite Cloud
Any way you look at it, this month's Netcraft Web Server Survey has some astounding numbers. The competition between Web servers is always interesting, but more so is the fact that the number of sites surveyed since April 2011 has more than doubled. Read more »
March 20, 2012 — Nginx, Inc. Press Release | NGINX News and Press
NGINX, the open source web server developer, today announced that it has named LeaseWeb, a leading hosting provider, as its preferred infrastructure partner. By bringing together the speed and flexibility of one of the world's top web server software with LeaseWeb's first-class global infrastructure services, the two companies will further enhance the quality of their customers' experience. Read more »
February 07, 2012 — Nginx, Inc. Press Release | NGINX News and Press
NGINX announced today commercial support options for companies using its open source web server in production. Read more »
January 20, 2012 — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | Software Quality Connection
This formerly obscure Web server is gaining popularity with businesses. NGINX is now the new number two Web server, largely because it promises a fast, light, open-source alternative to Apache. Read more »
January 11, 2012 — Nginx, Inc. Press Release | NGINX News and Press
Today, open source web developer NGINX announced that Igor Sysoev, co-founder and author of its widely used edge web server, has been named Developer of the Year for the inaugural 2012 Cloud Awards. Read more »
January 09, 2012 — by Josette Rigsby | CMSWire
The web server market has been stable for ages. Year after year, open source darling Apache HTTP server takes first place by an impressive margin and Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) takes the silver. Well, it looks like things are changing. Read more »
January 06, 2012 — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet Open Source
Apache remains the top Web server, but open-source NGINX has just taken second place from Microsoft’s Internet Information Services. Read more »
January 05, 2012 — by Tony Mobily | Free Software Magazine
NGINX is the new start rising in the landscape of web servers. Well, it's hardly "new"—it will soon turn 10. However, it's definitely rocking the web server world, with Netcraft showing a huge increase in usage in the last few months. Read more »
January 05, 2012 — by Scott Gilbertson | Webmonkey
For the first time since it sprang onto the web in 2004, Nginx (pronounced “engine-ex”), the lightweight open source web server that could, has overtaken Microsoft IIS to become the second most used server on the web. Read more »
January 05, 2012 — by Josette Rigsby | CMSWire
Enterprises have increasingly embraced open source as a part of their technology portfolio. Despite the growth, some leaders are still hesitant about “officially” endorsing open source options. There are fewer support options, more unknowns and an almost complete absence of magic quadrant style analysts’ reports to guide decision-making. Open source solutions provider OpenLogic may be changing that. The firm has released a new, detailed finding about enterprise open source trends in 2011. Read more »
January 04, 2012 — by Ted Samson | InfoWorld
With financial backing from the likes of Michael Dell and other venture capitalists, open source upstart Nginx has edged out Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Server) to hold the title of second-most widely used Web server among all active websites. Read more »
January 03, 2012 — by Sean Kerner | ServerWatch
New web servers continued to come online at the end of 2011. According to web server stats vendor Netcraft's January 2012 survey, there are now nearly 583 million sites on the Internet. The January survey figure represents an increase of 27.2 million sites over the December 2011 figures, for a 4.9 percent gain. Read more »
December 29, 2011 — by Joab Jackson | IDG News Service, PCWorld Business Center Software/Services
For the better part of the last decade, the choice for Web server software has been pretty stable. Apache has been used on the majority of Web servers while Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Services) is used across many of the rest. Over the past few years, however, use of a third entrant, Nginx (pronounced "engine-x"), has been on the rise, thanks to the software's ability to easily handle high-volume traffic. Read more »
December 12, 2011 — by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier | Linux.com
2011 was a huge year for Nginx, an alternative Web server that excels at HTTP and reverse proxy serving. Read more »
December 1, 2011 — by Pingdom | Pingdom
Andrew Alexeev who's in charge of Business Development and Marketing for NGINX took time to answer our questions. Read more »
November 14, 2011 — By Lee Hutchinson | Ars Technica
Lee discusses different webserver software and applicability of NGINX to a PHP-enabled environment in order to reduce memory footprint and CPU utilization while improving performance. Read more »
October 27, 2011 — By Liam Eagle | Web Host Industry Review
Java platform as a service offering Jelastic announced on Wednesday 26, 2011 that it has built the popular open-source web server NGINX into its platform to provide customers with better performance and efficiency. Read more »
October 13, 2011 — by Justin Lee | Web Host Industry Review
With major players Apache and Microsoft's IIS dominating the web server market with a combined share of nearly 80 percent, the rise of open source developer NGINX to become the third most popular web server is certainly intriguing. Read more »
October 12, 2011 — by Josette Rigsby | CMSWire
Open source web server NGINX is growing up and ready to take on the enterprise. NGINX announced that it has received new investment dollars, is planning a commercial division and a new enterprise scale platform. Open source web server Apache may not be sitting comfortably much longer if NGINX has its way. Read more »
October 11, 2011 — by Glyn Moody | ComputerWorldUK Open Enterprise
The Netcraft Web Server Survey, which appears each month, is usually viewed as offering the spectacle of a two-player fight between the open source Apache and Microsoft's IIS. Actually, that's giving Microsoft too much credit, since it's never really been a fight: IIS has occasionally tried to claw its way closer to Apache's market share, failed dismally, and then started sinking back again. But there's another story in these graphs. Read more »
October 11, 2011 — by Joe Brockmeier | ReadWrite Cloud
NGINX is tearing up the charts and going big-time $3 million in a series A round. The company, which announced its intent to go commercial in August, is being backed by Michael Dell's MSD Capital, BV Capital, and Runa Capital. It's little wonder that the five-person company was able to land investment, as it currently powers more than 11% of all active sites on the Web. Read more »
October 11, 2011 — by Kirin Kalia | Launch Blog
Less than two months after forming a services company based on its open-source, high-performance web server, Russia-based NGINX has raised $3M in a Series A and will open its San Francisco HQ before the end of 2011. Read more »
October 11, 2011 — Deborah Gage | The Wall Street Journal Venture Wire
Nginx Inc., whose open source Web server software is used by some of the top websites in the world, has raised $3 million in Series A funding from BV Capital, Runa Capital and an entity affiliated with MSD Capital, which manages money for Dell Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Michael Dell. Valuation is $10 million. NGINX's software was developed seven years ago as a side project by NGINX Chief Technology Officer Igor Sysoev. Then working at Rambler Media Ltd., a Russian language media and web services company, Sysoev was trying to solve the "C10K problem" — what happens when a web server has to handle 10,000 connections all at once. Read more »
October 11, 2011 — by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | ZDNet
When it comes to Web servers, the big two are Apache and Internet Information Server, but their faster, more nimble rival, NGINX is catching up with them. Read more »
October 11, 2011 — by Alan Shimel | NetworkWorld
After almost 10 years of development, the second leading open source web server is going commercial. NGINX (pronounced like Engine-X), the brainchild of Igor Sysoev has announced the opening of their US based commercial entity and a three million dollar round of funding. Of course the largest open source web server is the venerable Apache web server upon which the Internet was built. Since 2004 though NGINX has been used by over 40 million domains and about 20% of the largest web sites in the world use it. Read more »
October 11, 2011 — by Sean Kerner | ServerWatch
The open source NGINX web server is now one of the fastest growing web servers on the Internet. NGINX now holds down an 8.5 percent market share, with just over 43 million sites, according to the most recent Netcraft survey. NGINX is now moving to the next stage of its development with a commercial company called Nginx Inc. Nginx announced Tuesday that is has raised $3 million in series A funding. The new funds will help to grow the commercial company as it moves to build out an open core model of commercial technology and services on top of an open source base. "Despite being somewhat controversial, we think that it's the most valuable approach for open source projects to be open core, in order to provide the commercial features that are really needed," Andrew Alexeev, Nginx co-founder told InternetNews.com. "We're not going to close functionally in the open source project, but rather we will address the items that small companies don't need but the bigger companies do need." Read more »
October 11, 2011 — The Wall Street Journal
SAN FRANCISCO, CA and MOSCOW — Open source web server developer NGINX has received $3 million in a fully subscribed Series A round. Today NGINX powers over 40,000,000 domains on the Internet and over 20% of the top 1,000 busiest websites around the world, including Facebook, Zappos, Groupon, LivingSocial, Hulu, TechCrunch, Dropbox and WordPress. Read more »
October 11, 2011 — By Joab Jackson | IDG News Service, InfoWorld
NGINX, an increasingly popular open source Web server software program, has gotten some commercial backing. Nginx Inc., co-founded in July by the software's creator Igor Sysoev, received $3 million in funding from a number of venture capital firms, including MSD Capital — the private investment firm for Dell CEO Michael Dell — and from BV Capital and Runa Capital, the company announced Tuesday. Read more »
October 11, 2011 — by Roberto Galoppini | Commercial Open Source Software Blog
NGINX — the company born earlier this year to turn the NGINX project success into a commercial open source product - just announced the closure of a $3 Million series A funding round. Given the impressive results of NGINX, that according to Netcraft may soon overtake Microsoft, it comes with no surprise that 3 different VCs have decided to invest on it. Read more »
October 11, 2011 — Nginx, Inc. Press Release | NGINX News and Press
SAN FRANCISCO and MOSCOW — October 11, 2011. Funding from BV Capital, Runa Capital and MSD Capital Fuels NGINX’s Commercial Plans and New US Presence. Read more »
August 04, 2011 — by Joe Brockmeier | ReadWrite Enterprise
The NGINX webserver and reverse proxy server has already posted impressive numbers in the Web server market as a small open source project. Now the project's creator, Igor Sysoev, is taking a run at turning nginx into a company. Will NGINX shake things up? Read more »
July 22, 2011 — by Chinmoy Kanjilal | Techie Buzz Open Source Software
NGINX is an HTTP and reverse proxy server famous for its slick performance. A few days back, the people behind the NGINX project decided to form a company and thus set standards for all their operations. Nginx is not as popular as Apache but it is indeed a better option than Apache if you want peak performance and can manage the correct setup. The servers at Techie-buzz are also powered by NGINX because it is lightweight and uses lesser memory than traditional Apache servers. Read more »
July 20, 2011 — by Kirin Kalia | Launch Blog
NGINX the company intends to improve support and documentation as well as introduce new features and speed up patches and fixes. Igor Sysoev started developing Nginx in 2002 while working at Russian search engine Rambler and released the code in 2004. Other founders are Andrey Alexeev, who was director of the IP service network at Russian mobile operator MTS/Comstar, and Maxim Konovalov, previously CTO of Rambler. Read more »
July 18, 2011 — by Derrick Harris | GigaOM Cloud
NGINX creator Igor Sysoev is planning a company based around the wildly popular open-source web server. Sysoev announced the decision on the NGINX blog Monday morning, writing that the commercial entity’s “primary goals are improving support and communication for our users, streamlining the development process, revamping the documentation, integrating and speeding up pending bugfixes and patches, introducing long-requested functionality and more.” Read more »