Nginx hosting

Nginx is a lightweight and high performance Web server which has been licensed under a BSD like license. It runs various operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, BSD variants, Unix, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Nginx hosting delivers static content quickly with efficient use of system resources. It can easily deploy dynamic HTTP content on a network using the FastCGI handlers for scripts, as also can serve as a capable software load balancer. Nginx hosting uses an asynchronous approach which is event-driven for handling requests which provides predictable performance under load, as against the Apache HTTP server which makes use of a threaded or process oriented approach for the same.

Nginx is basically a Russian project which was originally designed for the 3rd busiest web site in Russia, RamblerMedia.com. Nginx was serving as many as 500 million requests each day till September 2008 for Rambler. Since then it has been running for over five years on many more heavily loaded web sites. Nginx hosting promotes scalability. It is stable, fast, and intuitive and is arguably the most logical choice for the purpose of serving big and huge traffic oriented web sites. Since there is no official support for nginx hosting under a particular hosting environment as yet, it is in most of the cases used by some fans as also large web sites that run on a dedicated server. What the user needs is a good vps or a dedicated server hosting provider.

As per the Netcraft's May 2011 Web Server Survey, nginx hosting stood as the third most extensively used web server across almost all the domains. It was the fourth most widely used web server for all the “active” web sites. According to the W3Techs, nginx hosting is used on almost 5.3% of the high ranked 1 million web sites as also gains around 0.2% every month.

Features of Nginx Hosting:

• It facilitates the easy handling of static files and index files as also permits auto-indexing
• Caching with Reverse proxy
• Load balancing
• Fault tolerance and SSL support
• Caching with FastCGI support
• Virtual servers based on Name and IP
• FLV, MP4 streaming using MP4 streaming module
• Access authentication for web page
• Gzip compression
• It can handle over 10000 connections at a time
• URL rewriting is possible
• Custom logging
• WebDAV
• Static file serving
• SSL and TLS support
• Virtual hosts
• Compression
• FastCGI

Apart from the above mentioned features there are certain other advantages. Nginx is small in size similar to the popular web server software apache. Besides this it is user friendly with the configurations. Nginx hosting is designed for heavy traffic web sites specifically with loading balance support as also proxy support. If the user is familiar with system administration, then nginx hosting turns out to be the best choice for E-commerce web sites. Nginx hosting is open sourced and is compatible with most of the modern operating systems including windows and linux.

More info:
Official Nginx website
Nginx tutorials