Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round

Re:Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round by chubot on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @05:53PM (#6556628)

I doubt it, because Google doesn't use nginx for anything public facing, and I'm pretty sure Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft don't either. That already counts for a huge chunk of internet traffic.

Nginx is good for relatively high traffic sites, but not so high traffic that you have entire teams of engineers rolling your own load balancing!

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Re:Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round by eksith on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @06:02PM (#6556668)

Correction: Facebook does use Nginx. As does Hulu, Zappos, Zynga and Dropbox.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/18/nginx-the-web-server-tech-...

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Re:Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round by yeukhon on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @06:25PM (#6556793)

Do you happen to know why they don't and what do they use? If they are using Apache, I assume they have a custom version that is highly optimized. http://www.serverwatch.com/article.php/3911511/Google-Speeds...

I guess for all fairness, yeah, let's only count public facing. I think with internal proxy nginx will probably be even higher.

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Re:Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round by objclxt on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @07:33PM (#6557059)

> Do you happen to know why they don't and what do they use?

Google originally used a modified version of Apache (and, as you have linked to, contributed a module to it), but my understanding is the Google Web Server is now so far removed from Apache it bears virtually no resemblance to it.

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Re:Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round by meowface on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @10:16PM (#6557644)

I wonder if they ever plan on open sourcing parts of their web server.

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