What are nginx and apache

What is nginx?

Nginx (engine x) is a high-performance HTTP and reverse proxy web server, and also provides IMAP/POP3/SMTP services. Nginx was developed by Igor Sesoev for Russia's second most visited Rambler.ru site (Russian: Рамблер). The first public version 0.1.0 was released on October 4, 2004.

It releases source code under a BSD-like license and is known for its stability, rich feature set, sample configuration files, and low system resource consumption. On June 1, 2011, nginx 1.0.4 was released.

Nginx is a lightweight web server/reverse proxy server and email (IMAP/POP3) proxy server, released under the BSD-like protocol. Its characteristics are that it occupies less memory and has strong concurrency capabilities. In fact, nginx’s concurrency capabilities do perform better among web servers of the same type. Users of nginx websites in mainland China include: Baidu, JD.com, Sina, NetEase, Tencent, Taobao, etc.

What is apache?

Apache is the world's number one web server software. It can run on almost all widely used computer platforms and is one of the most popular web server-side software due to its cross-platform and security features.

It is fast, reliable and can be extended through a simple API to compile interpreters such as Perl/Python into the server. At the same time, Apache is transliterated as Apache, which is a tribe of North American Indians called the Apache tribe in the southwestern United States. It is also the name of a foundation, an armed helicopter, etc.

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