Why is NGINX so common?

[Connor]

Hello everyone! I'm interested as to why NGINX has become so popular.

[winkibili]

Imagine calling a company phone number and then the extension to get to a specific person you want to talk to. That’s basically nginx working as a reverse proxy. The company phone is equivalent to the destination IP address. The URL your using is equivalent to the extension you’re dialing. If I go any deeper the 5 year old requires some basic networking knowledge. Not sure if that’s common knowledge yet but I know we’re getting there

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[Aiden]

This is my first job in this field. I'd want to learn more about NGINX

[Connor]

NGINX is a web server that also acts as an email proxy, reverse proxy, and load balancer.

[Colton Abbe]

The software was created by Igor Sysoev and publicly released in 2004. Nginx is free and open-source software, released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license.