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nginx web server/proxy developer announces a fork: freenginx (mailman.nginx.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I suspect that this might get interesting (in the way that one might want to grab popcorn for). I don't know the current numbers but a sizable amount of web servers use nginx to at least some degree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

According to w3, about 35%

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For whatever it's worth, Netcraft's January 2024 survey says Nginx is around 23%, with Apache coming in second at just under 21%.

https://www.netcraft.com/blog/january-2024-web-server-survey/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I was going to say that Cloudflare uses nginx but I found that's no longer true.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

A bit of rant but I hope this can fix some of the discrepancies I have found between free Nginx and the Plus one:

If I want to configure (minimum amount of) proxy connections to keepalive then I have to use upstream ... { ... } directive, but by using that nginx changes how upstream proxy url is DNS resolved. Within docker this can actually cause problems when the nginx container starts sooner then the upstream service - afair to fix it one needs Nginx Plus because in free upstream DNS resolution "mode" can't be configured.