What is NGINX?
What is NGINX?
NGINX is a free, open-source web server software that serves as a high-performance web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache. It was originally developed by Igor Sysoev in 2004 to address the C10K problem—handling tens of thousands of concurrent connections efficiently. C10K problem was a term used to describe the inability of web servers to handle large numbers of concurrent connections i.e – more than 10,000.
Today, NGINX is widely used to deliver both static and dynamic web content, optimize application performance, and improve reliability across large-scale web architectures.
Install NGINX
To install NGINX on a Debian-based Linux system like Ubuntu, you can follow the below steps:
Launch Terminal.
Issue the following commands:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install nginx
Start NGINX
You can start NGINX using the following command
$ sudo systemctl start nginx
