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Nginx Web server goes commercial with new release |
August 22, 2013
Nginx is releasing a commercial edition of its namesake open source Web server software, called Nginx Plus, which it will market as a software alternative to application delivery controllers (ADCs)."The features that have been added are very similar to what you'd find in hardware-based ADCs," said Gus Robertson, CEO of Nginx. "We're an alternative to Apache, but I think we're also an alternative to hardware-based application delivery controllers."Robertson said that the software will provide functionality similar to that of ADC appliances from F5 Networks or Citrix, which are used to speed delivery of high traffic websites through techniques of load balancing and caching.Nginx has already made a name for itself as a Web server able to very efficiently handle large amounts of traffic.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2047200/nginx-web-server-goes-commercial-with-new-release.html#tk.rss_all
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